Family Obligation Quotes

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

You shouldn't have to win the boss lottery in order to have a little bit of flexibility at work. Raising and supporting a family isn't just a financial obligation. What's important isn't just being able to put food on the dinner table - we want you to be at the dinner table, too.

My family was as absolute as the work.Family was first always.

My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother's, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.

I tried to take my gran to the Brits, but she's 81, and I don't know if she was up for making the whole journey all that way for one night anyway.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I knew I'd been given another chance, another life in Australia by my parents, so I didn't want to hurt them.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, "That man!" ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, "That woman!"

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

I'm always helping my family. It's the most important thing.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity.

For a long time, I didn't think I had the right to walk away from my family.

If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.

I didn't want to do anything that could possibly tarnish my brother's career.