family Quotes

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.