Quotes on Family

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

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

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

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.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?