Family Quotes

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

My family background was deeply Christian.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

The family is the American fascism.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

Those who think the family has had its day should think again.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the familiy parrotto the town gossip

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Adults are just children who earn money.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it

Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

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

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.