Quotes About Family

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions.

There's a bed, a little fold-out table, and cabinets made of actual wood. These in combination with the photographs of family and friends give it a cozy, domestic flavor which is, however, completely ruined by the framed picture of Adolf Hitler on the wall. Waterhouse finds this to be shockingly poor taste until he remembers it's a German boat.

But Henry wasn't a parent, and he didn't understand that when you were, almost nothing was more satisfying than seeing your kid sleep.

Now there are many Shaftoes—mostly in Tennessee—but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.

For like a lot of young Moirans, Kath Two didn't even try to establish a fixed home. With a home came a social circle, and perhaps a family.

That was his youngest. Hadley, the girl in the middle, was in Berkeley; she'd been doing volunteer work for an organization in Oakland and had a lot of free time.