“Pleasant in the world is the state of a mother, pleasant the state of a father.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
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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.
“Of all which a filial son can attain to, there is nothing greater than his honouring his parents.”
Mencius
Honouring ParentsRespect
“Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, strikes each in each by mutual ordering, resembling sire and child and happy mother, who all in one, one pleasing note do sing.”
William Shakespeare
Family HarmonyMusic
“Relations dear, and all the charities of father, son, and brother, first were known.”
John Milton
Family BondsLove
“A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.”
George Herbert
MarriageWealth
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson
MarriageFunny
“Hector, you are to me father and mother and brother, as well as my beloved husband.”
Homer
MarriageDevotion
“I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.”
The Bible (Isaiah 44:3)
BlessingChildren
“Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:16)
GenerationsFaith
“The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.”
The Bible (Psalm 102:28)
LegacyGenerations
“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him.”
The Bible (Genesis 18:19)
LeadershipHousehold
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 30:19)
ChoicesFuture Generations
“For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off.”
The Bible (Acts 2:39)
PromisesChildren
“And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.”
The Bible (Luke 1:50)
MercyGenerations
“And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.”
The Bible (Genesis 24:67)
GriefComfort
“I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 9:7)
KindnessLoyalty
“He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 24:5)
NewlywedsHome
“And Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.”
The Bible (1 Kings 17:23)
MiraclesMothers
“And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.”
The Bible (Luke 7:15)
RestorationMothers
“For she had neither father nor mother; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.”
The Bible (Esther 2:7)
AdoptionLove
“Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock.”
Mother Goose
BabiesLullaby
“There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes, with stripings of scarlet or gold.”
Eugene Field
BedtimeChildhood
“Like father, like son.”
Traditional Proverb
FathersResemblance
“The apple never falls far from the tree.”
Traditional Proverb
ParentsResemblance
“And he that goeth forth and weepeth, shall come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves.”
The Bible (Psalm 126:6)
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