Quotes About Family

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian...and most of all, his family ought to know.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. John Adams

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Spend time with your families.

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back

Writers will happen in the best of families