Quotes for Family Life (or at least your fridge)

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

~Monta Crane~

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

~Ben Bergor~

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

~Marcelene Cox ~

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

~Harold Hulbert~

Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.

~Louis Kaplan~

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

~Dr. Jess Lair~

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

~John Wilmot~

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

~Stella Benson~

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

~Dr. Henker~

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

~Chinese Proverb~

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

~Source Unknown~

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.  Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time. 

~Dale Dauten~

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

~Stephen Covey~

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

We usually meet all our relatives only at funerals where someone always observes, "Too bad we can't get together more often."

~Sam Levenson~

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family."

~Homer Simpson~

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

~Penelope Lombard~

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

~Wayne H.~

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

~Gail Lumet Buckley~

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts ever quite wish to.

~Dodie Smith~

As a culture, we would be well served in associating 'Parental Guidance' beyond the realms of television programming.

~Brian G. Jett~

Sound really does travel slower than light. The advice parents give to their 18-year-olds doesn't reach them until they're about 40.

~Unknown~

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

~Mark Twain~

You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.

~Homer Simpson~

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

~Erma Bombeck~

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?", "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than, "Where's your manuscript?", "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?".

~Fran Lebowitz~

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)~

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

~Kahlil Gibran~

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

~Doug Larson~

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

~Jim Valvano~

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.

~Bill Cosby~

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Last modified: November 07, 2008