You leave home to seek your fo...

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

~Anita Baker~

To nourish children and raise ...

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

~Marilyn French~

There's a time when you have t...

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

~Hazel Scott~

The presidency is temporary-bu...

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

~Yvonne de Gaulle~

The presidency is temporary-bu...

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

~Yvonne de Gaulle~

The darn trouble with cleaning...

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

~Barbara Bush~

One loyal friend is worth ten ...

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

~Euripides~

My darling little girl-child, ...

My darling little girl-child, after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more, I have my baby.

~Martha Martin~

It seems to me that since I've...

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

~Anne Tyler~

Is there any stab as deep as w...

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

~Florida Scott-Maxwell~

If you have a good name, if yo...

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say ""I have done my best,"" then you are a success.

~Ann Landers~

If you bungle raising your chi...

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis~

I figure if I have my health, ...

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ""content.""

~Lauren Bacall~

I believe that we are always a...

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most, an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

~Helene Iswolsky~

God gave us our relatives; tha...

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

~Ethel Watts Mumford~

Friends are relatives you make...

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

~Eustache Deschamps~

Disorder in the society is the...

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

~Elizabeth Ann Seton~

Chance makes our parents, but ...

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

~Jacques Delille~

Biology is the least of what m...

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

~Oprah Winfrey~

All love that has not friendsh...

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~