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Quotes About Family

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
~ Matt Groening
My life revolves around love.
~ Greg Evans
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Christmas makes you want to be with people you love. I'm not saying this to hurt you, or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. That doesn't go away because I decided to stay with you.
~ Unknown
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
~ Latin proverb
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa
My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.
~ Eric Pio
Family... a group experience of love and support.
~ Marianne Williamson
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
~ John Denver
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~ Jeremy Taylor
We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.
~ Demosthenes
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
~ Madeleine L Engle
Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children.
~ Unknown
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love
~ Ellen Key
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name
~ William Shakespeare
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~ Unknown
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~ Unknown
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men
~ Unknown
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
~ Unknown
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
~ Laurie Anderson
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
~ Unknown
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez