Family Quotes

"The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people."

"All that I am I owe to my mother."

"The happiness of families is the foundation of the happiness of states."

"Children are the riches of a nation."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw."

"My dear Patsy, as you are now in your twelfth year."

"The bonds of family are the strongest ties that bind us to virtue."

"The cultivation of virtue begins in the home and the family."

"A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by actual indigence than by ten thousand homilies."

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage."

"Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."

"The best security for old age: respect and affection from family and friends."

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother."

"I have always done everything that was asked of me by my God, my husband, and my children."

"I am a woman and a mother—and these are circumstances which make me interested in the welfare of my race."

"I would not have my child brought up in this way for all the world."

"I have two sisters and two brothers living."

"My people are my neighbors, my friends, my kindred, and my own flesh."

"The most afflicting of human calamities is the death of one's children."

"I have raised my children, and they have grown up to be good people."

"The greatest legacy is not wealth but wisdom passed to future generations."

"I would make a home in the North, and would work until I had earned money enough to buy my mother."

"My mothers' suffering most in my mind. But when I thought of her, I could not turn back."

"The memory of my mother's face drove me forward."

"I do not believe God ever made a woman that was not fit to be a mother."

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

"The memory of my mother is with me still as a perpetual benediction."

"A mother's work lasts forever and she molds the character of the nation."