Family Quotes

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. ----Marilyn French

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. ----Oscar Wild

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. ---- Isaac Rosenfeld

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. ---Pablo Casals

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ----LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ----Nancy Mitford

The theme of satsangh: that there is Salvation in numbers. ---- Sri Rangasri

The good, the true, the tender -- these form the wealth of home. ----Sarah J. Hale

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. -----Elizabeth Stone

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ---Oscar Wilde

Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
----Sera Christann