Quotes About Family

No solo nos marca la familia en la que nacemos, sino también el momento que vive esa familia cuando nacemos.

Así como la suerte de un chico depende de la chica, la suerte de una madre depende de sus hijas.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en que cada uno vivía sólo para sí y para su familia. Hay un cuadro del siglo XIX que representa una multitud bajo la lluvia, donde cada cual mantiene su paraguas por encima de su cabeza y la de su esposa, y obsequia a su vecino con las gotas que chorrean de aquél. Dice mi padre que ese cuadro debió ser para el artista una especie de sátira de aquellos tiempos.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

Ma come hai fatto capirlo, Clod?» si erano stupiti i miei parenti. «Come hai fatto a capire che la spilla da balia era lì?» «L'ho sentita gridare,» avevo risposto.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

For the first time in more than thirty years, Nicholas wanted the company of his blood—not the amicable converse of friendship, not the parley of a lover, but the marrow-talk of kin and consanguinity

You're not such tough guys," she said, "you Corleones." Tom Hagen touched the brim of his cap, straightening it on his head. He watched Kelly where she stood brazenly just outside her door. He said, "I'm not sure I'm entirely representative of my family.

Firenza said, "I kind of like Pete. He's a funny guy." "We'll send him a nice wreath," Bocatelli said. "The family will appreciate it.

Sonny. "I curse the day I met you," he said, "you and your family," and he said it evenly, without malice or anger.

All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.

Babies are our business, our only business.

It's ten p.m. Do you know where your children are?

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.

Sisters are like fat thighs: they stick together.