Family Quotes

The family is the nucleus of civilization. ----Ariel and Will Durant

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. -----Pearl S. Buck

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family? ----Marmontel Gretry

To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself. ----Chinese proverb

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

One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members.
--Unknown

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. ---Edvard Grieg

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that. -----Barack Obama

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success. ----Og Mandino

By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. While the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battlefield but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, "Our Father Who Art in Heaven. ----Douglas Macarthur

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ----Reinhold Niebuhr

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. ----Benjamin Disraeli