Family Quotes

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

~ Gillian Flynn

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.

~ Jim George

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

~ Stormie Omartian

Over and over these organizations tell America that family, above all, is what Christianity is about. Devotion to one's family is, indeed, a wonderful thing. Yet it is hardly something to brag about. For all except the most pathologically self-absorbed, love for one's parents, spouse, and children comes naturally. Jesus did not make it his business to affirm these ties; he didn't have to. Jews feel them, Buddhists feel them, Confucians and Zoroastrians and atheists feel them. Christianity is not about reinforcing such natural bonds and instinctive sentiments. Rather, Christianity is about challenging them and helping us to see all of humankind as our family. It seems clear that if Jesus had wanted to affirm the traditional family in the way that Pat Robertson claims, he would not have lived the way he did.

~ Bruce Bawer

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children, her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course, always charting new course for her loved ones.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry’s tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

~ Sara Sheridan

Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.pg 63

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.

~ Reymond Page

There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate those situations. It’s the exhilaration of meeting someone when we are our most alive selves, breathing new air, high on life-altering moments. It’s the discovery of the commonality of the world’s people and the attendant rejection of prejudices. It’s the humbling experience of being suspicious of a stranger who then extends a great kindness. It’s the astonishment of learning from those we set out to teach. It’s the intimacy of sharing small spaces, the recognition of a kindred spirit across the globe.It’s the travel relationship, and it can only call itself family.

~ Lavinia Spalding

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

~ Margot Page

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

~ Robert Galbraith

..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.

~ Stephanie Laurens

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

~ Sara Sheridan

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.

~ Raquel Cepeda

There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when we lose those we care about, their love continues as long as we are open to receiving and reciprocating that love. Don't let the physical world dictate who you are and how to act, open your mind to something greater and as a result you will always find peace within your heart.

~ Jonathan Kuiper

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

~ Alan Shepard

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

~ Abeba Habtu

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

~ T.f. Hodge

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

~ Brian Selznick

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

~ Jon R. Michaelsen

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

~ Bertrand Russell

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

~ Anne Brontë

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family situation where abuse might take place. So the survivor panics as her relationship gets closer, certain that something terrible is going to happen. She pulls away, rejects, or tests her partner all the time.

~ Laura Davis

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks, but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

~ Tom Althouse

Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess ‘’our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore’’.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

~ Maggie Stiefvater