Family

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”                 ― Pope John Paul II ...

"I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing." ...

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back."       - William D. Tammeus ...

"The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane." - Donald G. Smith ...

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of ...

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood but also for those whom we'd give blood." - Charles Dickens ...

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." - Anthony Brandt ...

"Catholic parents must learn to form their family as a "domestic church," a church in the home as it were, where God is honored, his law is respected, prayer is a normal event, virtue is transmit­ted by word and example, ...

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller ...

"Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had." - Louise Hart ...