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Quotes About Family

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
~ Nacho Figueras
My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.
~ Vanilla Ice
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
~ Bette Davis
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
~ Billy Graham
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
~ Abigail Van Buren
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
~ Ed Asner
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
~ T. Berry Brazelton
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
~ Joe Hill, Horns
Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.
~ Shiv Khera
Everything depends on upbringing.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
~ Phyllis Diller
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
~ Neil Postman
Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.
~ Dorothy Nolte
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
~ Plato
With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.
~ John Leguizamo
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
~ Lisa Gardner
Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
~ Peter Krause
Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.
~ Bob Harper
It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.
~ Michele Borba
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
~ Joyce Maynard
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
~ Dorothy Parker
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
~ Bill Cosby