Quotes about Family
I was about nine or 10 when my dad moved to the U.S. to get another degree. Me and my mother moved to Atlanta to join him when I was 14.
— Fala Chen
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
— Ben Stein
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
— Frank Sinatra
People, like charity, begins at home.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
— Brennan Manning
Shakespeare described love as an "ever-fixed mark." In a healthy family, you know how love is defined: It's clear, has boundaries, and is attainable. Unfortunately, in a shame-bound family, love is a moving target; one day it's this and one day it's that, and just when you're sure you've got it figured out, you discover you don't.
— Brennan Manning
In a healthy family, you know how love is defined: It's clear, has boundaries, and is attainable. Unfortunately, in a shame-bound family, love is a moving target; one day it's this and one day it's that, and just when you're sure you've got it figured out, you discover you don't.
— Brennan Manning
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.
— Henri Nouwen
There are many elder sons and elder daughters who are lost while still at home.
— Henri Nouwen
God looks at his people as children of a family who are happy that those who have done only a little bit are as much loved as those who accomplish much.
— Henri Nouwen
she said, Whether you are the younger son or the elder son, you have to realize that you are called to become the father.
— Henri Nouwen
God does not love the younger son more than the elder. In the story the father goes out to the elder son just as he did to the younger, urges him to come in, and says, "My son, you are with me always, and all I have is yours.
— Henri Nouwen