Quotes About Family

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

If any of you are related to our main guest, let me know so I can speak slowly.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

Set thine house in order.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.