Family, Parents and Children
Home is where the heart is.
—Pliny the Elder(Gaius Plinius Secundus 23-79 Roman scholar)
He is the happiest, be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832 German poet and dramatist)
The family you came from isn’t as important as the family you are going to have.
—D. H. Laurence(1885-1930 British writer)
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
—John Howard Payne(1791-1852 American playwright)
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
—Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887 American clergyman)
Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
—Sir Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941 Indian poet)
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
There is a skeleton in every house.
—William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863 British novelist)
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
—Elbert Hubbard(1856-1915 American publisher and author)
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
—James Baldwin(1924-1987 American novelist)
Children need models rather than critics.
—Joseph Joubert(1754-1824 French essayist)
Like father, like son.
—Latin proverb
The father’s virtue is the child’s best inheritance.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)