Quotes about Family
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
- Drew Barrymore
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
My favorite part of the Olympics was the flag raising and seeing my family there.
- Caeleb Dressel
I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.
- Viv Albertine
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
- Wendell Berry
The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.
- Frederick Buechner
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
- Frederick Douglass
When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling—that woman is a Christian.
- Frederick Douglass
The practice of separating children from their mother, and hiring the latter out at distances too great to admit of their meeting, except at long intervals, is a marked feature of the cruelty and barbarity of the slave system. But it is in harmony with the grand aim of slavery, which, always and everywhere, is to reduce man to a level with the brute. It is a successful method of obliterating from the mind and heart of the slave, all just ideas of the sacredness of the family, as an institution.
- Frederick Douglass
She stands — she sits — she staggers — she falls — she groans — she dies — and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.
- Frederick Douglass
The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen