Family Quotes
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The Bible tells us, “Do not despise the day of small beginnings” (see Zech. 4:10). I believe that whatever it is God has entrusted into your hand—your family, your career, your ministry—don’t count it as insignificant and don’t approach it with a lack of vision.
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I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.
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Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.
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I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.
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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
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I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
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I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
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I care about family issues.
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Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
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It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But he came under the condition that "I want and I'm called to make this a multiethnic church." So they knew. He's interesting because he's part-Asian, part-white. He's married to a Hispanic woman, so that's their family and that's their vision.
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I have three sisters, that's it for the family.
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
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The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.
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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
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Her family held strongly that for daughters to read in the daytime was to be idle. Well, if it was, thought Ingeborg lifting her head, that head that drooped so apologetically at home, with the defiance that distance encourages, then being idle was a blessed thing and the sooner one got away to where one could be it, uninterruptedly, the better.
