Quotes About Family

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.