Family Quotes

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

~ Lori Earl

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

~ Albert Einstein

I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be pushing off somewhere or other when things become tiresome; you have all the world to choose from, just by looking at the map… And then, suddenly, they’re not interested any more. They want to keep warm. They’re afraid of rain. They start collecting big things that can’t fit in a rucksack. They talk only of small things. They don’t like to make sudden decisions and do something contrariwise. Formerly they hoisted sail; now they carpenter little shelves for porcelain mugs.

~ Tove Jansson

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

~ J.c. Lucas

...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

~ Marcel Proust

Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction. People would be happier if they reduced their commuting time, even if it meant living in smaller houses, yet American trends are toward even larger houses and ever longer commutes. People would be happier and healthier if they took longer vacations even if that meant earning less, yet vacation times are shrinking in the United States, and in Europe as well. People would be happier, and in the long run and wealthier, if they bought basic functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans and in particular spend almost everything they have – and sometimes more – on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.

~ Jonathan Haidt

Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!

~ Jan Britland

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't have time is the worst possible excuse for I'd rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it's all in what you WANT to do. The heartbreaking moment is when you have extended time & devotion sometimes years with someone you knew to be worthy who can return it & they CHOOSE not to.

~ Gypsie M. Holley

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

~ Brandi L. Bates

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

~ Amit Kalantri

It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.

~ Courtney Carola

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

~ Addison Mizner

Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way to integrate your friends and family into the experience.

~ Woodson Merrell

She gave thanks for the grace that pours down when you least expect it-and wasn't that just another name for love?

~ Elaine Hussey

Community, community, community. It's ALL about community. That's the explanation of why it pains us when we find ourselves isolated from others. That's the reason why it hurts to say good-bye to those we love........ Nothing you purchase can replace community with your friends, family or God. No position at work can fill the void. Wealth can't take its place, and fame won't make any difference.

~ Chris Coppernoll

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

~ Jim George

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

~ Anthony Liccione

After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

~ Philip Green

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

~ Anthony Liccione

I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.

~ Tammy-Louise Wilkins

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.

~ Shannon L. Alder

80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me

~ Simon R. Green

You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.

~ Janice Hardy

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.

~ Jesse Holdeman

It is possible the world is divided into three genders - there are men, there are women and then there are women who choose to have nothing to do with children. How about men without children, he answered quickly, aren't they also different from fathers? She shook her head firmly, daring him to contradict her: no, all men are the same.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

Live life so well that, even if you die, the empty seats behind you will tell the story that, yea, this soul did what God sent him/her to do. Give life and hope into your family, village, community, country, continent and the world at large. You can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

~ Supanova Slom

Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom. They are more vulnerable to the elements, and are put to the test of survival by life's strong winds, rain, freezing cold, and hot sun. Constantly challenged. As they mature, they journey down the tree, strengthening the family unit until one day they have become big hefty branches. In the stillness below, having weathered the seasons, they now relax in their old age, no longer subject to the stress from above. It's always warmer and more enclosed at the base of the tree. The members remain protected and strong as they bear the weight and give support to the entire tree. They have the endurance.

~ Ralph Helfer

That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious egg if he'd had a therapist, and the dream made him wish he had one. In the dream, he sat in the kitchen of his mother's house at the table on his usual place. He could hear her handle pots and pans and sigh occasionally. Sitting there filled his heart with sadness and also with a long missed feeling of comfort until he realised that the chair and the table were much too small for him: it was a child's chair and he could barely fit his long legs under the table. He was worried that his mother might scold him for being so large and for not wearing pants. Gregory, in the dream, felt his manhood press against his belly while he was crouching uncomfortably, not daring to move.

~ Marcus Speh

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up with golden tapestries, murderers turn good, and children who cry out of loneliness receive caring teachers who are really the children themselves moved back from adulthood to their early years. Yes, my daughter, the past is not fixed and unalterable. With faith and will we can change it, not erasing its darkness but adding lights to it to make it more and more beautiful, the way a diamond is cut.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky