Quotes About Family

It's not an accident that the best cooking in Tuscany is found at home. It's the place where Tuscans' passionate love for food meets their passionate love for family and friends.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Los Buendía no eran capaces de amar, y ahí está el secreto de su soledad, de su frustración. La soledad, para mí, es lo contrario de la solidaridad

This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

And while it might seem to a parent that tattling is incessant, to a child that's not the case—because for every one time a child seeks a parent for help, there were fourteen other instances when he was wronged and did not run to the parent for aid.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

A House Is Not A Home.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the light of its varied legitimate and interrelated aspects.