Louis L'Amour Quotes

I can't compare family to athletics.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

We shall rear them as needed for the Fatherland.

I own frankly now that I am to engage, that what I may do may be reckoned and will be reckoned desperate. All appearances seem to be against me. Interest, prudence, and the obligations to you which I lie under, will prevent most people in my situation from taking a resolution that may probably end in my utter ruin. My life, my fortune, my expectations, the happiness of my wife and children are all at stake …, and yet a principle (what seems to me) honour, and my duty to King and Country, outweighs everything.

Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed.

I thought about this time to be making preparations for leaving this place [the Contenental Congress], but none of my colleagues appearing to relieve me, several States being unrepresented in Congress, and affairs of the first magnitude being now on the tapis, I thought it inconsistent with my honor to leave the State unrepresented at so interesting a period. Notwithstanding my anxious impatience to return to my family, I have determined to stay till I am relieved, or at least till the States are more fully represented in Congress.

Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.

I do everything for my family.

My family has sacrificed a lot.

Family first, always, no matter what the situation.

Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

A lot of guys are going to say, 'Look, if it meant me getting a Super Bowl ring, I'd run right over the top of my brother.' And I would have. But once it was said and done, I would have been very disappointed that I had to get the ring at my brother's expense.

The world of football has given me more than I deserved. But you always think of your family first.

Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

Football is my life, but my family's health is the most important thing in the world.