Family Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 6
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Sidonie Gruenberg
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind…cast-off and everyday clothing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents one must undertake to bring them up.
Quentin Crisp
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Peter De Vries
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on.
Thomas Hardy
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father, and I’m damned well going to make sure that my children are frightened of me.
George V
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas Moore
Express yourself. My grandmother loved to paint. My family loves to act. I was told to find what interests me and then express myself.
Anonymous
It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
Milton R. Sapirstein
One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
Proverb
They… threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this – animated, but collateral.
Rose Macaulay
If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.
Buddha
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
I wasn’t even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn’t give a toss. These things – the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it’s all trash.
Roddy Doyle
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Elbert Hubbard
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Anonymous
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Pearl S. Buck
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
That dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
George Bernard Shaw
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Francis Bacon
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
The sort of place everyone should send his mother-in-law for a month, all expenses paid.
Ian Botham
What a marvellous place to drop one’s mother-in-law!
Marshal Foch
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