Family Quotes

"Expectation is the mother of all frustration."

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."

"I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too."

"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."

"You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child."

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things."

"The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against."

"When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list."

"My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap."

"It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly."

"My father was in the First World War."

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

"Silence is the mother of truth."

"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child."

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."