Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.
- Stephanie Marston

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
- Mother Teresa

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.
- Conrad Hyers

Youth I Stay close to the young, and a little rubs off.
- Alan Jay Lerner

 

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city.
- George Burns

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
- Anonymous

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower; the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.
- Lew Lehr

Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
- Amy Tan

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
- Ingmar Bergman

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
- Gaston Bachelard

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
- Mencius

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
- Lois Wyse

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
- Doug Larson

Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
- Black Elk

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
- Winston Churchill

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.
- William Saroyan

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
- Ernest Havemann

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
- Eva Burrows

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
- Marge Kennedy

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
- Giuseppe Mazzini

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.
- Martin Fenton

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson, he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."
- Anonymous

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
- Jim Bishop

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- Gary Grant

Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.
- Anonymous

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- Michel Montaigne
 

Those who love the young best stay young longer.
- Edgar Friedenberg

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.
- Wayne Dyer

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell