Mother Teresa Quotes

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

Society wants happy families.

When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?