Quotes About Family

I was once the typical daughter, then the easily recognizable wife, and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Summertime, oh, summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky, the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play, escaping the city heat.

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.

sometimes our hearts get tangled and our souls a little off-kilter friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Sve nam je dao dragi Bog, hvala mu i slava; i slogu, i zdravlje, i bogatsvo, ali nam nije dao ono Å¡to ima svaki siromah: da vidimo svoj evlad i da znamo na kome sve ovo iza nas ostaje.

Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.

To forgive your mother opens and heals your heart.

I had watched my father, my uncles, my brother, and even my son—only on occasion—treat the women in their lives less than honorably.