Quotes about family

Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing personOne of the very best.You were here for part of my storyI wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile mostThe smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.

The bond of love the bond of peace.

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

My family always helped me. I had people around me who always pushed me to be the best: my dad, my mum. My dad used to play and coach as well. But I wasn't born with shiny things.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.

I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

I have a massive Samoan family. And the Samoan culture has always played a massive part of my life. I've got hundreds of family on my dad's side that live in Samoa and in New Zealand. I've just been surrounded by the culture ever since I was a kid.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.

It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

Some women do not masturbate for pleasure they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).

Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then.

The relentlessness with which these women tried to repair their relationships was foreign to me I didn’t understand why they didn’t simply give up.

What a wonderful life to be blessed with many sacred brothers and sisters?

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

My home is not a place it's people.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use back then it was a 'broken home'...

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

It is not something we often find out but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

With every choice you create the life you’ll live with every decision you design it.

There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I can’t help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isn’t four years anymore. It’s a number I wouldn’t even be able to say. It feels like four years. It’s trapped in my tender memory as four years. It’s been an age. Multiple ages. It’s been lifetimes every single lifetime that used to exist. I remember my mother screaming. I recall the doctors naming me as nurses wiped away her blood and

Love doesn't make the world go 'round love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately they talk to the heart.

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

Thus the successful bid to gain access to marriage effectively strengthens marital status as a state-sanctioned condition for the exercise of certain kinds of rights and entitlements it strengthens the hand of the state in the regulation of human sexual behavior and it emboldens the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of partnership and kinship.

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

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

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

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

All happy families are alike each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A family is one of nature's solubles it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

It didn't matter how big our house was it mattered that there was love in it.

She told me that she loved me. She told me that everything would be okay. She told me to let go so I did.

My family is like America we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.

Loyalty makes you family Keep this rare personality

Later that afternoon the house is quiet Usha knows that it is a forced and eerie quiet that comes with emptiness rather than with the fullness of serenity.

Surround yourself with family and treasure your time together. Family aren’t always blood. They’re the people in your life who want you in theirs the ones that accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.

It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner and that the knowledge of God and of His laws is handed down from generation to generation.