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Quotes About Family

May all the blessings of heaven rain down upon you and yours.
~ Irish blessing
A house needs a grandma in it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
~ Author Unknown
There's no place like home... except Grandma's.
~ Author Unknown
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
~ Author Unknown
Grandmother: A babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television set.
~ Jackie Kannon
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
~ Author Unknown
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
~ Italian proverb
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.
~ Author Unknown
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
~ Author Unknown
On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...
~ Edmund Blunden, "Forefathers"
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
~ Author Unknown
Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.
~ Author Unknown
Homecoming unites the past and the present.
~ Author Unknown
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.
~ Author Unknown
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in the world, since the payment is pure love.
~ Mildred B. Vermont
...The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven...
~ William Goldsmith Brown
Suburban life is merely motherhood on wheels.
~ Peter De Vries, in LIFE, 1956
Who fed me from her gentle breast, And hush'd me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
All mothers are working mothers.
~ Author Unknown
Now that... my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!
~ Forest Houtenschil, c. 1980
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other!
~ Forest Houtenschil, c. 1979
Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.
~ Sam Levenson
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
~ John J. Plomp