My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.
My siblings' first songs in Bollywood - 'Baabuji Zara Dheere' and 'Saawan Aaya Hai' were huge hits. There is no rivalry between us, and we love and support each other.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
It seems like all of my biggest life events happen when I'm actually at home in Cleveland around my family.
I see how loving my parents are toward each other, toward my family and toward me. And that's just a glimpse of Jesus' love for us.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.
I'm very comfortable, of course, just with my family.
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.
Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
Me for Ma
Her husband had previously been governor and he had been known as “Pa.”
If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering