Quotes on Large Family

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 problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

My family is very large. 42 million.

Children make you want to start life over.

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

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.