David Jeremiah Quotes

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there.

For me, I'm lucky to have a lot of close friends - through football or through my family.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

I can't live without my family, golf, and football.

It's important to make your social life and your friends and family - make that a priority.

I consider everybody I know to be my family.

I don't really care about the friendships on the court. I got my friends. I got my family, which I'm close to. I got a couple of friends that I'm always around.

Everywhere I go I have a lot of friends and family.

Family is the most important thing to me.

I think what's really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.

I'm lucky I've got such a strong group of people around me - my friends, my family who I talk to every day, and it's important that I stay in touch with them.

Family has been really important to me.

I'm related to people I don't relate to.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.