Family Quotes

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

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.

I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

No person ever died that had a family.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

When I was 7, I told my dad Iwant to have a house like MichealJackson's one. And then he said tome that dreams are only dreams,that's a privilegy of the richpeople. I have grown up now andmy dream came true, but I feelsad that my father can't see thatand what have I reached in mylife. But I know he's watching mefrom the sky

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

With children Love is spelled TIME.

My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I'm sure that he watches over me from above.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

I work as my father drank.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.