Family Quotes

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Men are what their mothers made them.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.