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Quotes About Family

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.
~ Richard Rogers
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
~ Brandon Lee
Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.
~ Howard W. Hunter
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
~ William Shakespeare
Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
~ Jessica Alba
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.
~ Henny Youngman
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
~ Meryl Streep
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
~ Billy Sunday
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
~ Robert Orben
I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.
~ Jack Nicholson
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
~ Indira Gandhi
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.
~ Joan Rivers
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
~ Tecumseh
'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
~ Taylor Caldwell
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
~ Benjamin West
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
~ Ferran Adria
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
~ Anders Zorn
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
~ William Shakespeare
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
~ Natasha Gregson Wagner
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
~ Don Johnson