Quotes About Family

As the Queen put it, 'The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever.

The most effective birth control I know is a toddler with the croup and diaper rash.

You aren't taking any more of our children.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

But what does it mean to feel pressured or coerced to abort? Abortion opponents cite lurid news stories of women threatened with guns or even murdered for rejecting abortion. That's coercion. But a parent who lays out in detail the hard life of a single mother is not forcing a daughter to terminate her pregnancy, nor is a boyfriend who says he's not up for marriage or ready to be a father, or a sister who says there's no room for another baby in a shared apartment.

Pro-choicers often say no one is "pro-abortion," but what is so virtuous about adding another child to the ones you're already overwhelmed by? Why do we make young women feel guilty for wanting to feel ready for motherhood before they have a baby? Isn't it a good thing that women think carefully about what it means to bring a child into this world—what, for example, it means to the children she already has?

Contrary to the popular stereotype of abortion-seeking women as promiscuous teenagers or child-hating professionals, around 6 in 10 women who have abortions are already mothers.

Men are, fortunately, so foolish that they can be proud of a curse so long as it is a family one.

Mother is the one we count on for all the things that matter most of all.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to "find company," so to speak.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

I've always thought that the supreme relationship is the one between mother and child, and the bond of mothers and sons can be devastatingly intimate like no other relationship on earth.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.