Quotes About Family

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.

Keep ya family close and your based family closer.

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

A bad father has never a good son

A greedy father has thieves for children

It is a wise father that knows his own child.