Family Quotes - Page 53

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

[Going to Barca] was a decision I took with my family. They helped me a lot. It's been a dream come true. I'm really happy.

My family is very large. 42 million.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?