She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

In the real world, children love me.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Fear is real, but so is love.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.