Family Quotes

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I ca...

I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands ...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal...

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, m...

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

The Dutch fetishes who converted me tell me every Sunday that the blacks and whites are all children...

A man should never neglect his family for business.

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choos...

Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. L...

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you mig...

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a fa...

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt ...

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the bu...

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all...

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, ...

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try...

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is s...

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even...

Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" w...

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your ho...

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than the...

People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sittin...

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that ne...

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be h...

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but...

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie...

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is...

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coole...

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, ...

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares a...

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional a...

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtf...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing....

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from ...

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I g...

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...

I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the comput...

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest...

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage an...

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also...

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect ...

She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon ...

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ...

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes...

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relation...

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

Renunciation is not rejecting the family but accepting the whole world as family. Renunciation is no...

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from...

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines...

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the d...

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the d...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional bat...

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra...

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will inv...

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I star...

We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessit...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are m...

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do...

I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as...

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down...

She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact...

She stood in awe of her elder daughter. Lida was never tender, she spoke only about serious things; ...

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on ...

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots a...

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleepin...

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the...

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and...

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy...

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone wh...