Quotes on Family

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.