Quotes About Family

Tiger father begets tiger son.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. One's a Republican, one's a Democrat. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Good fathers make good sons.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.

Homemade soup has extra nourishment that store-bought will never have. Love, broth, and salt can heal many things.

Mrs. Harker gave us a cup of tea, and I can honestly say that, for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home.

We expect our teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

The majority rule is excellent for government, but it doesn't work well in mental institutions, prisons, or families with two or more children. Adolescents not only need discipline but they want it. When children call the signals and run the family they get the impression their parents are imbeciles. Kids who do as they please are not happy, they are confused. The best way to keep your children's feet on the ground is to put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

The heart and the gut are siblings.

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

But there was never child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Thare iz 2 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and them iz twins... Twins are two very interesting acksidents tew happen in sumboddy elses family, but one twin at a time suits me the most.

It's double the giggles and double the grins, and Double the trouble if you're blessed with twins.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.

Twice as much to love, Two blessings from above.

Life is two-riffic with twins.

Twenty fingers, twenty toes, Two sweet babies with cheeks of rose. Born the same day, two gifts from above, Lives entwined, two babies to love.

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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.