Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.