Quotes about Family
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. John Adams
— John Adams
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained
— Winston Churchill
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
— Ronald Reagan
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
— Mother Teresa
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
— William Saroyan
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson
— Victor Hugo
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
— Margaret Mead
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
— Elbert Hubbard
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ
— Charles Dickens
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher