Quotes About Family

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Under the guise of "women" and "gay" rights, we are being re-engineered to be androgynous and behave like homosexuals, who generally don't marry or have families. Psychological and biological differences between men and women are not "stereotypes." But signatories to the latest UN "CEDAW" Convention (passed by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee) will be required to "take all appropriate measures to modify all social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women." (Article 5)

But it seems to me now that it no longer matters if I never finish. I will try not to wait for the end, but I hope to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. It is enough that I am well for a little longer, that I have been lucky to be part of a family – past, present and future – that I can still be useful, that there is still work to be done.

My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child's life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.

My family were playing out an age-old scene that I suppose is rarely seen now in the modern world, where we die in impersonal hospitals or hospices, cared for by caring professionals, whose caring expressions (just like mine at work) will disappear off their faces as soon as they turn away, like the smiles of hotel receptionists.

The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

The problem of living a Christian life in a non-Christian society is pressing, since most of our social institutions are non-Christian and in pagan hands. The family remains the only trustworthy transmitter of Christian culture.

Dad," he said, "how far away is the sun?" "Five thousand miles," his father said.

The Jordans never spoke of the exam, not until their son, Dickie, was twelve years old.

It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner; and that the knowledge of God and of His laws is handed down from generation to generation.

Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,And Edith with golden hair.

Between the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day's occupations,That is known as the Children's Hour.

I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little feet.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.