Quotes about Family

if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

I'm always looking for new ways to create flavorful veggie dishes for my family.

As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.