Top Family Quotes

we have faith to sit in a chair, and continue to believe in its foundation that holds us up. If we have faith in God, the foundation will hold us both up, so its our decision to take the seat and trus...

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Family Definition

(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality i...

I don’t know, Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brown curls. He just – Julian left, and Tavvy fell asleep on my lap.He sounded amazed, wondering.Of cours...

The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within...

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the so...

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the te...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people wh...

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

I love you, was his reply. I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests...

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and f...

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and mo...