Quotes About Family

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant at our hearth Which never can be filled; A gentle heart, that throbbed but now With tenderness and love, Has hushed its weary throbbings here, To throb in bliss above...

Happy children! thus to flee Early to their home above! Happy those below, to be Upward drawn by chords of love!

Home is where the dog is.

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.

A family is a resting-place from worldly cares...

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.

Blood is hotter than water.

Blood is stronger than breeding.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

The first child in a family is its poem, — it is a sort of nativity play, and we bend before the younger stranger with gifts, "gold, frankincense, and myrrh." But the tenth child in a poor family is prose, and gets simply what is due to comfort. There are no superfluities, no fripperies, no idealities, about the tenth cradle.

A family is a small kingdom, a kingdom is a large family...

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people — no mere father and mother — as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

It is a piece of luck to have relations scarce.

Every large family has its angel and its demon.

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

Fathers who share their children's growing time cannot grow old, cannot grow paunchy and stodgy and stiff even if they wished to, and who wishes to? Let another wear the dignity of the pompous front but not a boy's father. He doesn't have to. He wears the aura of young life.

The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.

You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.

A father lives after death in his son.

As the father of two young girls, I have come to the realization that they are just as messy as boys but the dirt that they create around the house is comprised of at least 50% glitter.

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. Grandfathers are just antique little boys.

And it is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man's mother holds his child in her gladdened arms he is aware (with some instinctive sense of propriety) of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways.