Family Quotes

“Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”

The Bible (Proverbs 14:1)

“Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.”

The Bible (Genesis 50:21)

“Nature begot us related to one another, since she created us from the same source and to the same end.”

Seneca

“The first bond of society is marriage; next, children; and then the family.”

Cicero

“Parents love their children as themselves; for their issue are by virtue of their separate existence a sort of other selves.”

Aristotle

“From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

“From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice.”

Marcus Aurelius

“A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.”

Confucius

“There is government, when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.”

Confucius

“Wi' joy unfeign'd brothers and sisters meet, an' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers.”

Robert Burns

“The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape.”

Charles Dickens

“You have no compassion for my poor nerves.”

Jane Austen

“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.”

Jane Austen

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

Louisa May Alcott

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

Oscar Wilde

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

Oscar Wilde

“He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.”

The Bible (Psalm 113:9)

“House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

The Bible (Proverbs 19:14)

“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?”

The Bible (Joshua 4:6)

“That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children.”

The Bible (Psalm 78:6)

“For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.”

The Bible (Hebrews 2:11)

“Then Ulysses in his turn melted, and wept as he clasped his dear and faithful wife to his bosom.”

Homer

“'Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving.”

Sophocles

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”

Sophocles

“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe; she had so many children she didn't know what to do.”

Mother Goose