Quotes About Family

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
-- Chinese Proverbs

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"I know how to do anything - I'm a mom."
-- Roseanne Barr

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
-- Martin Mull

"There are only two lasting bequests
we can hope to give our children.
One of these is roots, the other wings."
-- Hodding Carter

"We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"I have found that the best way to give advice to you children
is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
-- Harry S. Truman

"Anything which parents have not learned from experience
they can now learn from their children."
-- Anonymous

"A baby is God's way of saying the world should go on."
-- Doris Smith

"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."
-- Charles Dickens

"A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race."
-- Barbara Christine Seifert

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
-- Herbert Hoover

"Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
-- Elizabeth Stone

"Hey, the way I figure it is this: if the kids are still alive
by the time my husband comes home, I've done my job."
-- Roseanne Arnold

"A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything;
the young know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?"
-- Alice Walker

"One of the best things about being
an adult is the realization that you
can share with your sister and still
have plenty for yourself."
-- Betsy Cohen

"Big sisters are the crab
grass in the lawn of life."
-- Charles Schulz

"A loyal sister is worth a thousand friends."
-- Marian Eigerman

"A ministering angel shall my sister be."
--William Shakespeare

"How do people make it through life without a sister?"
-- Sara Corpening

"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space,
the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."
-- Evan Esar

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather."
-- Christina Rosetti

"Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts."
-- Anonymous

"Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting."
-- Anonymous

"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild."
-- Welsh Proverb

"Never have children, only grandchildren."
-- Gore Vidal

"A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart."
-- Anonymous

"Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things."
-- Anonymous

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.
She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."
-- Ellen DeGeneres

"Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice."
-- Anonymous