Family Quotes

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

What least makes a mother is biology.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

There are secrets in all families.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

The most important thing is family.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

Father, you left me, but I never left you.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.

Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurlHeaven and Earth out of their places,That in the same calamityBrother and brother, friend and friend,Family and family,City and city may contend.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.