“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
William Ross Wallace
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Family Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FAMILY
Family Quotes
Read 200 of the best family quotes about home, mothers, siblings, parents and the love that holds families together, from Dickens, Austen, the Bible and more.
“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still.”
Rudyard Kipling
MothersUnconditional Love
“Happy he with such a mother!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
MothersGratitude
“I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved, and respected.”
Louisa May Alcott
MothersDaughters
“The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
MothersInfluence
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
MothersSociety
“Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:25)
MothersStrength
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:29)
MothersPraise
“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother.”
The Bible (Psalm 131:2)
MothersPeace
“For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 1:27)
Answered PrayerChildren
“But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.”
The Bible (Luke 2:51)
MothersMemories
“And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.”
The Bible (Ruth 4:16)
GrandmothersLove
“And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.”
The Bible (Genesis 33:4)
BrothersReconciliation
“Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee; for we be brethren.”
The Bible (Genesis 13:8)
Family PeaceBrothers
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
Charles Dickens
ChildrenLove
“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
The Bible (Matthew 19:14)
ChildrenFaith
“And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.”
The Bible (Mark 10:16)
ChildrenBlessing
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
Samuel Johnson
HomeHappiness
“Treat with the reverence due to age the elders in your own family, so that the elders in the families of others shall be similarly treated.”
Mencius
RespectElders
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
G. K. Chesterton
Ordinary LifeFamily
“'Tis often seen adoption strives with nature and choice breeds a native slip to us from foreign seeds.”
William Shakespeare
AdoptionLove
“But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter.”
William Shakespeare
DaughtersComplicated Families
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.”
The Bible (Ephesians 5:25)
MarriageLove
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.”
The Bible (Titus 2:4)
MentorshipLove
“But let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 5:4)
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