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Family Quotes


"I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since."


"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."



"I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys."


"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."


"I love my family because they are always there for me even during my fragile moments."



"I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare."



"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."


"Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage."


"In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night."


"Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children."



"All mothers are slightly insane."



"To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood."


"You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection."


"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."


"At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences."



"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."



"It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try."


"I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book of its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done: swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he had wound up with."


"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports."


"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience."


"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."



"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."



"The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss."


"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."


"Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on."


"The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom."


"When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain."



"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors."


"A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'"


"It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents."



"Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness."



"Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father."


"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
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