Quotes About Family

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.