Family Quotes

“East, west, home's best.”

Traditional Proverb

“A man's house is his castle.”

Edward Coke

“The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has survived the fall!”

William Cowper

“I love it, I love it; and who shall dare to chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”

Eliza Cook

“The stately Homes of England, how beautiful they stand!”

Felicia Hemans

“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Charity begins at home.”

Thomas Browne

“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.”

The Bible (Proverbs 12:4)

“A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, might tempt, should heaven see meet, an angel's lips to kiss, we think, a baby's feet.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Sweet dreams, form a shade o'er my lovely infant's head.”

William Blake

“There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning.”

J. M. Barrie

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

Mark Twain

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

John Locke

“Do you know the surest way to make your child miserable? Let him have everything he wants.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“And Moses said, Aaron thy brother, when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.”

The Bible (Exodus 4:14)

“One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons.”

William Shakespeare

“I cannot choose but think upon the time when our two lives grew like two buds that kiss.”

George Eliot

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

Edmund Burke

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

Plutarch

“Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Blood is thicker than water.”

Walter Scott

“Happy union with wife and children is like the music of lutes and harps. When there is concord among brethren, the harmony is delightful and enduring.”

Confucius