Quotes on About Family

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

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

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?

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

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

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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.