(14 quotes found)
“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
T.S. Eliot
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
Eva Burrows
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The family is the school of duties - founded on love”
Felix Adler
“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ”
Charles Dickens
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson”
Victor Hugo
“I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.”
Madeleine L'Engle
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
M. Grundler
“The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.”
Buddha