family Quotes

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.