Quotes About Family

the phenomena of the reunion—

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.

I love watching Daddy play with Sara. I remember exactly how it felt to hold Daddy's hand when I was little. You could show me the hands of a thousand men and I could pick out my Daddy's, no problem.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Thy wife," promises Psalm 128, "shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table." (The image here is perhaps that of a cut stump "table" surrounded by green scions.)

it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

What do you say to furthering our cousinly relationship by a drive in the Park this afternoon?

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

When Sarah Marston learned that her Aunt Hilda had left her a cottage and two thousand pounds, she realised that at last she could leave her husband.

marvelled that you could live with a man for years and bear his children, yet remain quite remote from him.

Like King Midas, I am left with nothing but this unreasonable hope that, somehow, my strange life and my lost family will return to normal.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.