Family Quotes

"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years." "Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago." "In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV." "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity" "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry" "The most amazing thing about being a parent is that every single day it feels like a different day" "The family has always been at the center of Appalachian life" "Family is everything and nobody is going to love you more than your kids" "The homemaker has the ultimate career." "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter" "The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community." "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." "One does not love one's children because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them" "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father"