Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

The family is the nucleus of civilization. ”

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. ”

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise. ”

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. ”

I have lived in south London all my life, and my family is here. ”

My dad used to take me to training in bangers, and we used to push the car. He would do whatever it would take, so I owe my family. ”

There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here... if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble. ”

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then. ”

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family. ”