Quotes about Family

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.