Family Life Quotes

There were office-worn gents with yellow faces, bent backs, and one shoulder set slightly higher than the other from spending hours hunched over desks. And their sad, anxious faces spoke volumes about their domestic troubles, never-ending money worries, and all those old hopes which had been dashed for good; for they all belonged to the army of poor threadbare drudges who just about make ends meet in some dismal plasterboard house with a flowerbed for a garden in the rubbish-and-slag-heap belt on the outskirts of Paris.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are ready, they will only know one emotional gesture: More!

~ Kim John Payne

The greatest virtue is endurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Jase opened his door, stepped down, and leaned into her window. “Hungry?”Taking a big breath didn’t help when his sexy scent of cologne had hit her in the face. Hallelujah. “Yeah, I’m getting there.” “Let’s go. The cowboy just came to take you away.” He reached in and turned off the ignition, clasped her keys and opened the door. When she stepped out, he didn’t bother to move back any and they were close. This man was hot and not only his temperature. Whatever kind of chemistry radiated off him, soaked right into her.

~ Mary J. Mccoy-Dressel

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

~ Helen Picca

May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of ‘likes’, tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If we stop to ponder the paths of our feet, would we: Allow our children to participate in sports or activities that will ultimately consume our family time, dictate our schedules, and cause us to miss church on a regular basis?

~ Lori Hatcher

I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that. Maura to Jess.

~ Emily Giffin

In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.

~ Karen Jones Gowen

A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.

~ Karen Gibbs

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

~ Kat Kaelin

Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her.

~ Colleen Hoover

It wasn't a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and trying to be on time. Petty little thing, but zillions of them fused together.

~ Heather Graham

I'm pretty much awake now. (P) The last time I said that, I passed out in the bathtub. (I) I remember that. Neil covered you with towels and said that he found a mermaid. (P) You were so beautiful, Mummy. Like Ice Bird when he freezes the pigs. (N) Thank you, sweet. -- Ingrid, Paul and Neil.

~ Bailey Cunningham

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

~ Auliq Ice