Quotes About Family

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.