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Quotes About Family

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
~ Victor Borge
I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
~ Mitch Albom
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
~ Yancy Butler
I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.
~ Hayden Christensen
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I dig being a mother.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
~ William Watson Purkey
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
~ Aeschylus
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
~ Booker T. Washington
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
~ Marilyn Horne
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
~ Pele
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
~ James M. Barrie
My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
~ Raf Simons
Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
~ Anthony Perkins
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.
~ Leeza Gibbons
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.
~ Charley Pride
One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
~ Patrick Dempsey
It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.
~ Tupac Shakur
Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
~ Henny Youngman
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
~ David Mamet
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.
~ Steffi Graf
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
~ Groucho Marx