Quotes About Family

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And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is silence, stillness. Nothing more.

Honesty is all I've got, she said finally, speaking in a low voice. I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word. Her chin rose. When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.

Anything else, Your Majesty? I didn't say my prayers. I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless all the rotten cousins and kill Jenny. Amen.

Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise.

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me! Mem stared at her sister. Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst? Certainly not! Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Megan and Marty's nine-month-old daughter with a mop of red curls.

No, my dad and I moved here six years ago after my mom died. We lived in Wisconsin

long before your sister revives to come to your rescue. 'Tis almost too good. Not only do

when Orrin and Maria Brand had been killed in that car accident, leaving him as sole caretaker to his five younger siblings. And when

By making love conditional, tough love undermines familial affection, removing the one refuge where people can ordinarily assume they are loved for who they are, not what they do.

Figuring that "it can't hurt" to intervene "before it gets worse," is an error that many parents who resort to tough love regret forever.

Without oxytocin, mice cannot tell friends or family from strangers—and mothers do not learn to nurture their young.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

Imagine that you are a doctor and you suddenly learn that you'll see twenty patients on a Friday afternoon instead of twenty-five, while getting paid the same. Would you respond by spending more time with each patient? Or would you simply leave at six-thirty instead of seven-thirty and have dinner with your kids?

Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.

I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator.

Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did not become professionals in spite of their humble origins. They became professionals because of their humble origins.

Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.?

No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich ~ Chinese proverb

the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway

home. What did two of Louis and Regina Borgenicht's sons do? They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Here is the most remarkable of Farkas's family trees. It belongs to a Jewish family from

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation.