Quotes About Family

Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual's life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Don't believe the system is a meritocracy in which ability and hard work are necessarily rewarded. Today the most important predictor of someone's future income and wealth is the income and wealth of the family they're born into.

Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family?

It's easy enough to notice how often dysfunctional families and societies finally collapse into an orgy of mutual blaming. That's satanic work.

Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.

There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

Come cuddle close in daddy's coat Beside the fire so bright, And hear about the fairy folk That wander in the night.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Not needlessly to confound the herald with the historian, and begin a relation by a pedigree, I shall content myself to inform you [only gives, thankfully, his mother and father].

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who's complaining?

Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families — that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.