Family Quotes

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother."

- Prince William

"I’m not insane. My mother had me tested."

- Sheldon Cooper

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

- P. J. O’Rourke

"When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you."

- Nora Ephron

"You can kid the world, but not your sister."

- Charlotte Gray

"Good parenting means investing in your child’s future, which is why I am saving to buy mine a hoverboard someday."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit."

- Al Gallagher

"You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have."

- Meryl Streep

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."

- C. Everett Koop

"A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions."

- Richard L. Evans

"You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes."

- Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

"Men are what their mothers made them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."

- Hodding Carter, Jr.

"If I have a monument in this world, it is my son."

- Maya Angelou

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

- Frank A. Clark

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: It is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man."

- Sidney Poitier

"My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer."

- Louise Erdrich

"I come from the family of farmers. I am a son of a farmer."

- Pankaj Tripathi

"Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there."

- Leo Varadkar

"I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly."

- Lawrence Welk

"My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett

"Children are great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too."

- Lionel Kauffman

"I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

- Calvin Trillin

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

- Ambrose Bierce

"All that I can or hope to be, I owe to my mother."

"Love your life"