Family Quotes

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine / I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times/ I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

To you your father should be as a god.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

My father was the best person i've ever known.

What do I owe my father? Everything!

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

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

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.][Lat., Laetus sumLaudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.