Home / Topics / Family Quotes

Family Quotes

Browse 6439 quotes about Family.

Family Quotes

“Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.”

Children Father Parent Responsibility Family Roles Models Scripts Role Models Modeling Likelihood Ruts Being A Role Model

Book:Principle Centered Leadership

Source: Principle Centered Leadership

“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

Giving May Children Parent Situation Family My Family Charm Peculiar Disputes Family Life About Family Hysterical Children And Parents Inspirational Family Love Love Your Family

Book:An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

Source: An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

“Simply having children does not make mothers.”

Children Doe Mother Parent Family Abuse Having Children Children And Parents Funny Parenting Funny Parent Parenthood Funny

Author:John G. Shedd

“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”

Parent Justice Family Comedy Judging Quiet Parenting Parenthood Not Interested Funny Parent Peace And Quiet Funny Family Funny Family Reunion Amazing Parents Wonderful Parents

Author:Bill Cosby

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

Trying Matter Kids Parent Talking Family Produce Behavior Normal Parenting Bizarre Try Again Not Talking Referee Funny Parenting Funny Parent Parenthood Funny

Book:Fatherhood

Source: Fatherhood

“I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.”

Want Life Dream Passion Parent Family Saws Possibility Repeats Routine

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

Children Spirit Parent Family Philosophical Parenting Riches Reverence Plato Family Values Parents Love Great Parents Great Parenting Amazing Parents Inspirational Parents Parent Child Relationship

Book:Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato

Source: Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato

“When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.”

“The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.”

Children Parent Can Do Family Friends Best Things Spouse

Book:Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime

Source: Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime

“The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.”

World Way Children Parent Family Roles Friends Models Negative Raises Best Way Excellent Role Models

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.”

Needs Able Jobs Parent Work Pay Family Mom Fairs Primaries Flexibility Caretakers

Author:Joan Blades

“Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.”

Way Children Parent Family Brother Our Children Extensions Spouse Brothers And Sisters

Author:Fred Rogers

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”

Thinking Children War Parent Family Drug Users Naive Tangled Tangled Webs

Author:Ogden Nash

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

Giving Children Parent Family Parenting

Author:Ogden Nash

“We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.”

Children Ideas Together Fun Parent Family Having Fun Parks Disneyland Children And Parents Theme Parks

Author:Walt Disney

“The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.”

World Children School Parent Family Wife Husband Our Children University Devotion Our Relationship Children And Parents

Author:Swami Muktananda

“If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”

Ifs Stills Parent Family Generations Racism Jokes Adults My Family Gender Poison Role Models About Family Snuff Snickers Ending Racism

Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”

Parent Compassion Family Maturity

Author:Anais Nin

“Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.”

Knows Children Parent Forget Education Family Convinced Experts Educator Parents Love Best Parents

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”

People Needs Ends Home Parent Friendship Perfect Family Picks Chosen Loyal Good Friend Sibling Lifting Dependable Female Friendship Without Friends Perfect Friendship

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.”

Firsts Mean Children Care Parent Community Family Wife Protect Husband Caring Our Family Husband And Wife

Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?”

Thinking Giving Children Soul Today Values Parent Family Like You Our Children Train Committed Priorities Your Children Sufficient Immortal Pauses Pondering Immortal Soul

Author:L. Tom Perry

“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.”

Needs Children Spiritual Parent Family Wife Materials Husband Ideals Units Godly Happy Children Loving My Family

Author:Jerry Falwell

“To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.”

Thinking Way Children Parent Family Communicate My Way Decline Way Of Thinking American Family

Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.”

Dies Left Parent Family Rich Golden Longevity Estates Astonishing Retrievers Golden Retrievers

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.”

Knows Parent Family Gone Sunscreen Good Family Wear Sunscreen

Book:The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.”

Life Is Parent Family Taught Grew Type Grew Up

Author:George Thorogood

“Teach your parents well.”

Wells Parent Family Teach

Author:Sidney Crosby

“The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.”

Kids Parent Family Kids Love

Author:Eminem

“You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.”

Parent Family Honored Stamps

Author:Lou Reed

“Things such as the idea of family and that of friendship are a sign of spiritual barbarism.”

Spirituality Parent Friendship Family Friends Child Advaita One Love Sibling All Is One

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”