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Quotes About Family

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
~ Abraham Maslow
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
~ Ana Ortiz
I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.
~ Molly Ringwald
I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.
~ Candy Crowley
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
~ Caroline Kennedy
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
~ Mary Wesley
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
~ Chevy Chase
My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.
~ Cynthia Nixon
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
~ David Cassidy
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
~ David Cassidy
I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.
~ Patrick Modiano
I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
~ Mavis Staples
I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
~ Robert Breault
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.
~ Mr. T
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
~ Gelett Burgess
Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
~ Stephen Covey
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
~ Saint Augustine
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
~ Demi Lovato