Quotes about Relationships

I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.

I think my mom recognized that I liked people to be happy. I like people to get along. And I like to be a peacemaker. And I liked the church. So she was like, 'You should be a youth pastor.'

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

I like my decisions to be taken carefully, so they don't harm anyone close to me, so that the people close to me are happy.

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

When my time is up," I would tell friends, "my dance card is going to be full.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

When I was young and, supposedly so beautiful, I had a tsunami of men crashing in on me and some really, really nice guys wanted to marry me. But I only ever wanted to marry for love. And I did. And it worked... for the first 20 minutes.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.