7,080 Quotes About Family

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.