Family

That's my family, Kay. It's not me.

Michael Corleone

Your children are not your children.

Khalil Gibran

Parenting is nothing if not selfless.

Richard

Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.

Sophocles

Wise is the child that knows its father.

English proverb

I got a boy. Eight months old. Smiles a lot.

Jack

Who has no children does not know what life is.

Proverb

Who has no children does not know what live is.

Proverb

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

No matter where I go, you'll always be my mother.

Tarzan

Father! -- to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William Wordsworth

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Lucille Ball

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. Phaedra, fragment 612

Sophocles

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.

Young Charlie

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

Eric Draven

Your father loves you, Faramir. He will remember it before the end.

Gandalf

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

It just seems that you and me have been mad at each other for so long.

Chelsea Thayer Wayne

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Jane Smiley

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Carl Gustav Jung

You're born into a family. You do not join them like you do the Marines.

Jerry

Since he's my stepdad, he's technically not family; more like a hostage.

Kat Ellis

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Remember this forever, you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.

Harry Morgan

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Jane Austen

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Maya Angelou

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Khalil Gibran

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Dad’s voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life.

Ray Bradbury

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore De Balzac

We never talked, my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

Judy Gold

Dad's voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life. Chapter 8

Ray Bradbury

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes.

Charlie

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.

Victoria Secunda

Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.

Michael

I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family, can never be a real man.

Vito Corleone

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.

Francis Bacon

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.

George Eliot

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.

George Eliot

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Michelle Obama

You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a Mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. Women and Their Fathers, ch. 3 (1992).

Victoria Secunda

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco

She’s the only person in the world who loves me. I think that’s nice. I don’t have feeling about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I’d have them for Deb.

Dexter Morgan

This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.

Barack Obama