Family Quotes

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set...

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his ...

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachme...

I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not p...

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child be...

Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand...

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they l...

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conserv...

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conse...

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showe...

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must hav...

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but ...

To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnesse...

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer app...

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round ho...

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...

In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough...

He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was im...

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, wil...

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain ...

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliff...

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state t...

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instr...

My dad looks like Clint Eastwood. His half-Scottish, half-German face in repose is handsome but terr...

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affo...

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not mo...

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because ...

Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their childr...

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly supp...

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's...

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they a...

I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you ...

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day l...

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, f...

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses....

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I ca...

I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands ...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal...

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, m...

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

The Dutch fetishes who converted me tell me every Sunday that the blacks and whites are all children...

A man should never neglect his family for business.

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choos...

Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. L...

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you mig...

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a fa...

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt ...

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the bu...

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all...

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, ...

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try...

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is s...

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even...

Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" w...

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your ho...

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than the...

People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sittin...

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that ne...

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be h...

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but...

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie...

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is...

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coole...

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, ...

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares a...

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional a...

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtf...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing....

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from ...