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Quotes About Family

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
~ Bruce Barton
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
~ Eric Allin Cornell
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
~ Robert Browning
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
~ Washington Irving
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
~ Sophocles
All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.
~ Louis de Montfort
The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people.
~ Maximilian Kolbe
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
~ John Calipari
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~ Jackie Kennedy
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
~ Mae West
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
~ James Joyce
No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.
~ Jim Jefferies
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
~ Amy Tan
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
~ Eddy Arnold
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
~ Chuck D
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
It takes a Mother's Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.
~ Richard Kuklinski
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
~ Brooke Shields
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
~ Thomas Friedman
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
~ Rickey Henderson