Quotes on Family

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

The whole world is one family.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.