Quotes About Family

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Even bad men love their mommas.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.