Family Quotes - Page 19

She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who you truly are

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment-discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I would stand and fight them to keep Fili safe.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.