Quotes About Family

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.