The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.

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!

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

A lot of people like to ask me, 'Ali, how on earth do you balance family and career?' Men never get asked that question. Because they don't.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.

My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

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.

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