Quotes on Family

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less