Quotes About Family

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.