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Quotes About Family

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.
~ John Bowlby
If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
~ Sigmund Freud
My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.
~ Jay Park
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
~ Harmon Killebrew
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
~ Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
~ Vivien Leigh
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
~ George Washington
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
~ Lois Wyse
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
~ Isabel Allende
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.
~ Sarah Brightman
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
~ Charlotte Mason
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
~ Hosea Ballou
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
~ Leonard Cohen
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
~ David Gottesman
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
~ Maureen Forrester
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
~ Alan Alda
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
~ Carly Fiorina
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
~ John Wesley
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
~ Luther Vandross
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
~ Robert Matsui
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
~ Glen Campbell
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert