A son doesn't choose his father.
Murtagh
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
I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.
Jo
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
The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.
Fa Zhou
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
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
In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given, the most sacred. Turn your back on them and that is when you truly have nothing.
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
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew
The mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot
I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep. I spend my weekends buying tutus. I'm learning to sew.
Graham
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
You're right I suppose, I mean, I guess it is childish. But when I was about 18 and my dad and I couldn't communicate about anything at all, we could still talk about baseball. Now that - that was real.
Phil
With her steady hand, she showed me how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life is really about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed.
Nicholas Sparks
We're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have a feeling that inside you there's something nobody knows about... something secret and wonderful. I'll find it out.
Young Charlie
The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.
Samuel Johnson
Who has no children does not know what life is. Proverb
Wise is the child that knows its father. English proverb
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
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. Chapter 20