Quotes About Family

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

My father was a very difficult man.

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

All men know their children mean more than life.

A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

Behind every great man is a good brother.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.