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Quotations About Family

Related: Parents, Grandparents, Brothers, Sisters, Children

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
Victoria Secunda
Women and Their Fathers, 1992


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Women and Beauty


You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991


What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James
Time to Be in Earnest


Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
The Strong Family


Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The Life of Reason


All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Karen Savage and Patricia Adams
The Good Stepmother


The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
Kendall Hailey
The Day I Became an Autodidact


Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
The Business of Life, 1949


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies


The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
D.W. Winnicott
Playing and Reality, 1971


Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child
Philothea: A Romance, 1836


One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640


Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Louise J. Kaplan
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978


Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971


It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette
My Mother's House, 1922


A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
Honoré De Balzac
Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées


The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Look, 5 March 1957


It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994


If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
C.G. Jung
Integration of the Personality, 1939


One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Flight to Arras


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul


Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Toni Morrison
Beloved, 1987


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621


Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh Proverb


Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
Vietnamese Proverb


When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy


Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Marc Brown


Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein


Tiger father begets tiger son.
Chinese Proverb


It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.
Elinor Goulding Smith


Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."
Louise Bernikow


If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Proverb


Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
Hindu Proverb


Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal


It takes two men to make one brother.
Israel Zangwill


A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Portuguese Proverb


Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck


Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
Chinese Proverb


Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Ed Howe


Sisterhood is powerful.
Robin Morgan


The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson


When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Antisthenes


Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown


A friend is a brother who was once a bother.
Unknown


Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres


It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich von Schiller


Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert


One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
Betsy Cohen


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Unknown


The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
Clara Ortega


Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Moorish Proverb


Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome


A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
Unknown


To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides


A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.
Proverbs 10:1


You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.


Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb


We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
Evelyn Loeb


Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
Louise Glück


What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
Gene Perret


After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.
Terri Guillemets


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
Jewish Proverb


A daughter is a gift of love.
Unknown


One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert


In time of test, family is best.
Burmese Proverb


A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty


Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
Unknown


The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.
Garrison Keillor


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb


But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.
Kathleen Sebelius


Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop


Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives.
Chinese Proverb


Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy


What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?
Alice Walker


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb


Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
Unknown


A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
Irish Saying


A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
Unknown


There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb


Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
Jacques Seguela


A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
Allan Beck


Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz


A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott


I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
James Boswell


He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
English Proverb


Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter


If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller


In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence


Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood.
Pam Brown


You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
Polish Proverb