When I think about my dad, I start clapping. I’m not applauding because he lived, but because he died.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as...

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable,...

Kau lahir penuh harapan dan kau memberiku sedikit harapan itu.

You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.

I don’t know. I know only that in your own way, you inspire us.

If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it’s fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be...

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

He is deemed an inappropriate guardian, whereas my parents who neglected us every day of our waking lives were always deemed appropriate guardians on account of the DNA issue. No one wants to separate children...

I always hear people talk about ‘dysfunctional families.’ It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there’s this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams things they don’t mean,...

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?

I may not always be with you But when we’re far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if...

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,...

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn’t interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don’t get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no...

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called ‘family’, he saw now the joys of...

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from...

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it...

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

We men have always fought to protect others… since the ancient times. Even though we were naked, and only had sticks and stones to defend ourselves… we still had the elderly, the young, our wives,...

A family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence. I don’t know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely...

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our...

When it comes to family, everything gets personal.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can’t choose their direction.

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to...

The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.

My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely....

Home is where they want you to stay longer

[Homeschooling]…recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.

You do know what I mean about Mom. It’s like she radios into headquarters for Dad’s feelings when she senses hers need backup.

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

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

All roads out of hell lead home.

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a...

The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a...

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS…

I missed my mother’s father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how...

Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one’s roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of...

My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not...