Quotes about family
84 quotes from 64 people
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
Edmund Burke1729–1797On Pitt’s First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall’s Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life (1930), Ch. 1, on his mother, Lady Randolph ChurchillNo government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family’s care.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Friend (1809–1810), No. 6 (September 21, 1809), p. 91So for the mother’s sake the child was dear,
And dearer was the mother for the child.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me” (1797)Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.
Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), FateThe length of one’s days matters less than the love of one’s family and friends.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Statement just before becoming the longest lived U.S. President as quoted in “Ford eclipses Reagan as oldest ex-president” in USA Today (10 November 2006)
