Quotes About Family

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

The similarities between me and my father are different.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.