Family-relationships Quotes

I'm as vulnerable as anybody to the toxicity of the American nuclear family. But I wouldn't call it ...

Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that fo...

I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ri...

You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

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

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

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between...

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

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...

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of lov...

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying ...

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irr...

Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song a...

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who...

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who ...

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't reall...

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture ...

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply ...

Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a ch...

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that t...

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with...

Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical...

When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family an...

Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. ...

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yok...

No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God’s eyes.” Beatrix continued, “nor sha...

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cous...

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...

She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in...

I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or...

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing...

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary lif...

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy ...

Most parents don't know really their children.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck w...

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come ...

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was somethi...

So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know wer...

So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know wer...

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, Augu...

It is sometimes hard to be a family.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're g...

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's s...

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also...

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, ...

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they di...

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall i...

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I c...

People retreated behind their front doors into the hidden zone of their private, family worlds and w...

I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attent...

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t...

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick...

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was ...