Quotes About Family

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?

Of course, Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear, shallow light.

Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.