Quotes about Family

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.

If you have your family's support, you can overcome anything.

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you — O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others…

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

I have this love for [him]. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his own clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my own forever, and my love goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.