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Quotes About Family

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.
~ Philip Roth
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
~ Pierre Salinger
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
~ PJ Harvey
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
~ Plautus
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
~ Oscar Wilde
My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
~ Rafe Spall
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.
~ Rebecca Loos
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
~ Rebecca West
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
~ Richard Steele
What's going on?" he demanded. "The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.
~ Richelle Mead
A man can never compete with a woman's father
~ Richelle Mead
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
~ Robert Jordan
The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.
~ Harry Reid
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.
~ Helen Bosanquet
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
~ Henry Rollins
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
~ Homer
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
~ Hugh Jackman
My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
~ Indira Gandhi
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
~ Irving Pichel
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
~ J. G. Holland
Married men make the best husbands.
~ James Huneker
Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.
~ Jamie Foxx
I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.
~ Jay Mohr
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
~ Jayne Mansfield