Quotes About Family

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

JOHN A. DAVIS is the president of the Owner Managed Business Institute in Santa Barbara. Formerly, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. Dr. Davis has organized family business executive programs at several leading business schools, and consults to

Proven environmental diseases, such as colon cancer, coronary artery disease, and adult-onset diabetes, all run in families—not necessarily because of genes, but because family members share the same dietary patterns. Simply

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.

Your deficiency in friendship is traceable to your fundamental friendship knowledge from your family.

Most families do not have friendships.

Friendship with children creates the foundation for a blessed family.

Many are the children who have become the company of wrong friends because their parents had no time to build friendships with them.

Friendship with children is the best atmosphere in a home.

It was Celeste, his mom. Only now she was younger than he was.

Simon curled up by Aunt Dot's chair, but he kept an eye on me in case any sudden disciplinary action should be necessary.

Do other people, remembering their parents, feel, as I do, a sense of having inadvertently done a small though significant, irreversible wrong?

Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century adventurers, a riverboat gambler, say, and his alibi girl.

I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.

his father was still living, and the living require more thought.

Oh, Ma, how little I understood you, thinking how little you understood.

moorhen swam on the water, delicately unzipping the placid surface as it went, her half-grown chicks strung out in a line behind her, bobbing along.

A fight with one's daughter is never less than debilitating.

Good manners were a part of his inheritance, like left-handedness or hemophilia.

We're a very cousiny people," Mary Harty told me. "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else.

The Lord then brought to my remembrance that His Word did not say, Children, obey your parents only if they are born again. He explained, You are my Child; therefore, I place My wisdom and instruction in the hearts of your parents for your guidance and protection.

A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is...