One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
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.
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.