Family Quotes - Page 8

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.