Quotes about Family

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

My family values are really, really important.

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

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.

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.

If you have your family's support, you can overcome anything.

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you — O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others…

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.