Quotes About Family

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Indeed, nothing is more critically connected to happiness?both our own and that of our children?than how well we love and support one another within the family.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Advice From Kids

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

Indeed, nothing is more critically connected to happiness?both our own and that of our children?than how well we love and support one another within the family.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.