Family Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

Blood's not thicker than money.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes.

Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

What thing, in honor, had my father lost,That need to be revived and breathed in me?

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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.

When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.