Quotes About Family

I grew up in a funny way.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

After a while, Dad went off to Spain, and I didn't see him for many years. I was too busy trying to make a success of my life, but even if I hadn't been working every hour God sent, I had no real wish to see him.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

A house was not a home without animals.

Mother knows breast.

Dear is a kinsman, but the pith of the heart is a foster-brother.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.

I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.

It is so odd to think of myself as an uncle. I should have laughed at twenty if one had told me that forty would find me wifeless and childless. But so it is, and I shall go and play "Uncle John" at Christmas to the children of wiser and happier folk...

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.

He that has no children brings them up well.

What is home without children? Quiet.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in a living room where eight or ten people have just opened their Christmas presents. It should not be cleaned up too quickly.

Three phrases that best sum up the Christmas season are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

Homemade meals — especially mommy meals — are life's most pleasant fuel.

Certain it is, that there is no Kind of Affection so pure and angelic as that of a Father to a Daughter.

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.