Family Quotes

Through no-fault divorce, one parent can now declare unilaterally that the marriage has broken down and invite the state in to take control and remove the other parent without the parent having committed any legal transgression. What the government then offers to the parent who invites it in is the promise that her invitation will be rewarded; the state will establish her as a puppet government, a satrap of the state within the family. This requires that not the faithless but the faithful parent be punished.

~ Stephen Baskerville

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.

~ Jean Oram

Cuddle with your children. Don't just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

I don’t know,” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brown curls. “He just – Julian left, and Tavvy fell asleep on my lap.”He sounded amazed, wondering.“Of course he did,” Cristina said. “He’s your brother. He trusts you.”“Nobody trusts a Hunter,” Mark said.

~ Cassandra Clare

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

~ Lemony Snicket

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

~ Russian Proverb

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

~ Katherine Reay

Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family.

~ Paul Bamikole

It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on.-Leo

~ Lisa Kleypas

One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?

~ J.d. Salinger

The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

~ Jason Gurley

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

~ Alcurtis Turner

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

~ Stefan Molyneux

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

~ Criss Jami

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

~ Vivian Amis

Nostalgia reaches into the past with both hands to grasp what is already gone and likely never will be again. Legacy reaches into the past with one hand to grasp what is teachable and passes it forward with the other hand to the next generation.

~ Al Ainsworth

It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around.

~ Louis L'amour

I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life.~Aunt Persis

~ Constance Savery

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

~ Alice Walker

In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last.

~ William Shakespeare

Some people, no matter how much love you give them, cannot be saved. The first victories do not guarantee the last. That doesn't mean there isn't a point to loving them, or that the first victory doesn't matter. If anything, love them more. Celebrate the victory while it remains a victory. Joy is limited-- but then, so is sorrow.

~ Isabella Rogge

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true!

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

The Church needs young people because they have vision for the future of the church.

~ Mor Ignatius Aphrem Ii

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

~ Jacques Delille

Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting.

~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

And so, as the mob backs away to give them space... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go.

~ Neal Shusterman

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.

~ Alan Cumming

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

~ L.m. Montgomery

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

~ Margaret Atwood

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both!

~ Mia Love

Family is a choice...Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other.

~ C.l. Stone

A woman's endurance enabled your first breath.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Not necessary that every problem has a solution, you have to live with 'some' problems..rather than forcing a solution and doing a blunder, live with it.. People always have solutions for 'your' problems but none for their own..

~ Honeya

Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert