Family Quotes

“Wherever you are is my home - my only home.”

Charlotte Brontë

“Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“To have a Cricket on the Hearth, is the luckiest thing in all the world!”

Charles Dickens

“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.”

Ann Taylor

“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.”

George Herbert

“For the long nights you lay awake and watched for my unworthy sake.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne.”

L. M. Montgomery

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

Traditional Spanish Proverb

“Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they began to cry.”

Eliza Lee Follen

“Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay.”

James Whitcomb Riley

“The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world.”

G. K. Chesterton

“The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be always carrying out your own admonitions in practice.”

Plato

“Nature has made from one seed and one principle two brothers, three, or more, not for difference and opposition, but that by being separate they might the better co-operate with one another.”

Plutarch

“Brothers love each other as being born of the same parents.”

Aristotle

“Who then can be found who has been more benefited by any one than children by their parents?”

Socrates

“That parents, when alive, be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety.”

Confucius

“When a family is destroyed, the immemorial family traditions perish.”

Bhagavad Gita

“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”

Francis Bacon

“There are good marriages, but no delightful ones.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life.”

Frederick Douglass

“And Jacob said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.”

The Bible (Genesis 48:9)

“For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

The Bible (1 John 4:20)

“Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them.”

The Bible (Genesis 45:15)