Quotes About Family

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."

See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.

Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish, would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

There's a wonderful family called Stein, There's Gert, and there's Epp and there's Ein: Gert's poems are bunk, Epp's statues are junk, And no one can understand Ein.

'Are you lost daddy?' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts!

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

There is a skeleton in every house.