Quotes About Family

DOC    (Goes into living room) 'Bout time for Fibber McGee and Molly.

Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live.

The repressive fifties were giving way to the rebellious sixties, symbolized by miniskirts and Playboy magazine and the young, progressive-thinking family in the White House. Elizabeth's great achievement during this period was that she made the public want her as she was: she made being sexy, independent and defiant of cultural norms the desirable way to be.

Which would you rather have, O King—that little golden statue, or a little girl who could run, and laugh, and love you?" "Oh, give me back my little Marygold and I'll give up all the gold I have!" said the king. "I've lost all that was worth having.

Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live. Individual

She does, certain; the best of young folks is, they remind us of the old ones. 'Tis nateral to cling to life, folks say, but for me, I git impatient at times. Most everybody's gone now, an' I want to be goin'. 'Tis somethin' before me, an' I want to have it over with. I want to be there 'long o' the rest o' the folks. I expect to last quite awhile, though; I may see ye couple o' times more, John.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up.

Home is where the house is.

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

Saul was going to kill Anansi. They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

He didn't know what if anything it was his mother got from his father's company.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

There is only one pretty child in the world and everymother has it

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

It's like Tolstoy's quote: "All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All

When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car.

I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.

Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.

She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.