Family

"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." ...

"Friends will come and go but family remains forever." ...

"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 ...

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them ...

"Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew." - Alice Miller ...

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

"Your life is defined by your fatherly and motherly desire and duty to give your children the best: a loving home, an upbring­ing, a healthy and positive start on the road of life, now and for eternity. Above all, through ...

"We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are ...

"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 ...

"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 ...