family Quotes

Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged us to play, he still found time to take me to ballet and tennis lessons.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.