Quotes About Families Love

#1. My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

Jack Kirby

#2. What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#3. A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

John Legend

#4. And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can all go home.

Kim De Blecourt

#5. See, I am very dependent ... on beauty and peace of the world ... on loyalty of friends ... on love in families ... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all ...

Galina Nelson

#6. So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

Sandra Magsamen

#7. This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.

David W. Earle

#8. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#9. I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

Bill Plympton

#10. Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

David W. Earle

#11. The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

Rachael Ray

#12. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.

Rosamund Hodge

#13. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#14. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

#15. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

David W. Earle

#16. Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible

Bella Andre

#17. All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.

Michael Learned

#18. No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

Hillary Clinton

#19. In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

G. Frank Lawlis

#21. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

David W. Earle

#22. I was raised by the Indian community, and those families are still very close to us. We used to go to each others' houses one Sunday a month, so we got to know everyone well. Also, we love Indian food and can't get enough of it.

Nikki Haley

#23. I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

James Taylor

#24. Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York

Anna Godbersen

#25. Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

Jared Harris

#26. Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

Laz Alonso

#27. Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

David W. Earle

#28. People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

David W. Earle

#29. Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families.

Diandra Asbaty

#30. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

David W. Earle

#31. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#32. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Pat Conroy

#33. I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes.

Judy Gold

#34. Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Martha Stewart

#35. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

David W. Earle

#36. Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something.

Andrew Bridge

#37. Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.

David W. Earle

#38. It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#39. I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Imani Hakim

#40. I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

Diane Sawyer

#41. You know what, Julia?" Mitch asked. "I love you. I even like you, a lot, which is pretty important to me because love is a requisite in families, liking each other isn't. But you're acting like a spoiled brat right now.

Elisabeth Naughton

#42. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#43. God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

Kirk Cameron

#44. What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence?

David W. Earle

#45. In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Pope Francis

#46. God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#47. Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

George Gilder

#48. A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

Leah Cypess

#49. I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Russell Brand

#50. The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.

Philip Gulley

#51. I am careful with the arguas (tomato caterpillars). Be careful with your mothers' hearts too, por favor.
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER

Eileen Granfors

#52. The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

Andrew Greeley

#53. Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

David W. Earle

#54. To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

Khaled Hosseini

#55. When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

David W. Earle

#56. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

David W. Earle

#57. Because that's what families do for each other. They support each other, whether they agree with the other person's decisions or not. It's called love." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Leah Braemel

#58. People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

David W. Earle

#59. Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved.

Louise Penny

#60. Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

Jim Stovall

#61. That's what families are for, don't ya know? To love each other to death, all the while ripping their hearts out.

Lisa Jackson

#62. Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

David Cameron

#63. Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

#64. Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

Junot Diaz

#65. Being able to say, "No," is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

David W. Earle

#66. If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding.

J. Spencer Kinard

#67. We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of "just kidding.

David W. Earle

#68. The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.

Ted Nugent

#69. Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

Celso Cukierkorn

#70. All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.

George Saunders

#71. Though all the major fairy tale families were coming tonight, I wouldn't exactly call any of them friends. Aside from the once-a-year gathering, I never spoke to any of them, except the occasional chat on Flitter with Cinderella, since we shared a love of designer footwear.

Betsy Schow

#72. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

David W. Earle

#73. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

Meg Jay

#74. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.

David W. Earle

#75. You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do.

Victor Villasenor

#76. Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#77. I love books about dysfunctional families.

Sara Shepard

#78. I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend their families. Yet they stood mute and allowed their loved ones to die. I judged them harshly in my heart for that.

Kirby Crow

#79. It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

Lewis Carroll

#80. Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

Aspen Baker

#81. Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit

Queen Elizabeth II

#82. Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.

Bobby Hull

#83. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.

Jaycee Dugard

#84. Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.

Pope Francis

#85. Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

Mother Teresa

#86. Not all families are bonded through blood. Some have been sewn together by love and laughter.

Belle Aurora

#87. Oh, my father, such a difficult man.
His world turned on his axis.
From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN

Eileen Granfors

#88. What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

Robert E.Lee

#89. Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you
and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

Tamora Pierce

#90. We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Jim Carrey

#91. I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

Joan Miro

#92. I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos.

Lynndie England

#93. But her life on this earth had taught her this: that love, in the end, was all that mattered. Friends, families, suitors, husbands: Goodness abounded in all of them.

Luanne Rice

#94. As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Marina Lewycka

#95. All over the world there were families deciding to care about each other and encourage one another along the paths God had given them.

Regina Jennings

#96. Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

David W. Earle

#97. Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

Dan Buettner

#98. Simi? What was it you told me once about families?
We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#99. Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of others. Allow yourself to connect in a deeper and more profound way.

David W. Earle

#100. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.

David W. Earle