Family Quotes

"The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief."

— Sir Francis Bacon

"The family is the first essential cell of human society."

— Pope John XXIII

"Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."

— John Updike

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

— Pope John Paul II

"The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

— H. L. Mencken

"Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence."

— Gregory Maguire

"It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son."

— G.K. Chesterton

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

— Sir Walter Scott

"A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

— Sigmund Freud

"It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on."-Leo"

— Lisa Kleypas

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

— Jonathan Safran Foer

"We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?"

— Jodi Picoult