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Quotes About Family

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.
~ Roma Downey
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
~ Robert Bly
Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
~ Erma Bombeck
My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
~ Novak Djokovic
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.
~ Hallie Ephron
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
~ Hallie Ephron
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
~ Hanna Rosin
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
~ Kim Cattrall
My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.
~ Kyle Chandler
The term 'working mother' is redundant.
~ Erma Bombeck
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.
~ Peg Bracken
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
~ Francis Quarles
I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.
~ Georg Solti
I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.
~ Peter Sohn
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
~ Gregory Corso
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
~ Philip Levine
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'
~ Ronald Reagan
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
~ Klaus Nomi
Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.
~ Tamba Hali