Family Quotes

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

~ R. D. Laing

The family is the American fascism.

~ Paul Goodman

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

~ Edward

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

~ Peter De Vries

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

~ Freya Stark

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.

~ Margaret Mead

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

~ Victor Hugo

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

~ Ashley Montagu

I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it content.

~ Lauren Bacall

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.

~ Anita Baker

If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say I have done my best then you are a success.

~ Ann Landers

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.

~ Martha Martin

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

~ Homer

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

~ Hazel Scott

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

~ Elizabeth Ann Seton

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

~ Marilyn French

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

~ Helene Iswolsky

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

~ Eustache Deschamps

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.

~ Barbara Bush

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

~ Yvonne De Gaulle

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.

~ Jacques Delille

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

~ Ethel Watts Mumford

A good friend is my nearest relation.

~ Thomas Fuller

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

~ Anne Tyler

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

~ Euripides

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

~ Terri Haynes Roach

Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him

~ Rob Shepherd

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.

~ Susan Forward

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from verbal abuse and physical harm. Their children’s rights are somewhat smaller but substantial nonetheless; children can’t have an equal say in decisions because of their limited knowledge and experience, but they do have the right to live free from abuse and fear, to be treated with respect, and to have their voices heard on all issues that concern them.

~ Lundy Bancroft

Can't release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn't making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was ride some insane roller coaster at Cedar Point--and now that seemed like no big deal. I'd never been out of the country. Never played with my unborn niece.Never made amends with my parents and sister since our continued fighting began almost eight months earlier.

~ Skye Callahan

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking has switched its grammar. The present continuous is its single operational tense. Uncertainty is our present and our future.

~ Marion Coutts

A man should never neglect his family for business.

~ Walt Disney

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

~ Kate Moss

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

~ Rob Kardashian

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

~ Tony Abbott