Quotes About Family

The son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done 't.

'Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in theeCalls back the lovely April of her prime.

My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,The gods themselves throw incense.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

'Tis a happy thingTo be the father unto many sons.

Tigers, not daughters.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

O my prophetic soul!My uncle!

I am all the daughters of my father's house,And all the brothers too.

One fair daughter and no more,The which he loved passing well.

Cursed be my tribe,If I forgive him!

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,That sucks the nurse asleep?

I have a daughter;Would any of the stock of BarabbasHad been her husband rather than a Christian!

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

Still harping on my daughter.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

My dad died of a stroke.

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother.

both of us were raised in lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish immigrant families

To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can't do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime.