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Quotes About Family

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
~ Louise Bourgeois
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
~ Horace
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
~ Jill Clayburgh
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
~ C.S. Lewis
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
~ Erik Erikson
You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.
~ Deepak Chopra
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
~ Susan Sontag
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
~ J. K. Rowling
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
~ Willie Aames
Anyone who ain't family is opposition
~ Vinnie Paz
You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
~ Edgar Cayce
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
~ Maureen Forrester
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
~ William Faulkner
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
~ Pope John Paul II
There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.
~ Groucho Marx
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
~ Mary MacLane
I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
~ Carolyn Murphy
All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.
~ Gregg Braden
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
~ Lisa Bonet
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
~ John Sculley
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
~ Toni Morrison
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.
~ Schoolboy Q
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~ Welsh Proverb