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Quotes About Family

Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
~ Sebastian Junger
My faith is firm. My mam called in the children and holding up my baby girl to the sun in the window she said to all them what I say to you, "This is the day the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice, be glad in it.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
We didn't raise our daughter, we merely loved her.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
she and Wotan are also both sister and brother, and wife and husband.
~ Serinity Young
On the other hand, here's an example from By the Way Bakery, which my wife founded. It's the largest gluten-free bakery of its kind in the world. Their change? "We want to make sure no one is left out. By offering people gluten-free, dairy-free, and kosher baked goods that happen to be delicious, we let the entire community be part of special family occasions. We change hosts from exclusive to inclusive, and guests from outsiders to insiders." What
~ Seth Godin
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.
~ Shakespeare
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.
~ Shakespeare William
The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75
~ Shakespeare, William
I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.
~ Shan Sa
It can be difficult sometimes for our families to accept us as people separate from who they are. As separate souls. When we're young, we're taught
~ Shana Abé
to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that's as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world.
~ Shana Abé
I would not attempt to guess at the nature of true love, except to say that when I was immersed in it—swimming through it, breathing it in, holding that breath, exhaling—in those short, extraordinary days and nights I shared with your father, true love was absolutely clear to me. Jack was clear to me. Jack was me, and I was him, and you, sweet child, are now us both.
~ Shana Abé
It can be difficult sometimes for our families to accept us as people separate from who they are. As separate souls. When we're young, we're taught to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that's as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world.
~ Shana Abé
It can be difficult sometimes for our families to accept us as people separate from who they are. As separate souls. When we're young, we're taught to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that's as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world." "Is
~ Shana Abé
Kinder hearts are stronger, her mother had once
~ Shana Abé
The fear of discovering his anger towards his father made his body shake.
~ Shani Mootoo
I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned. Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious!
~ Sharon Creech
I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.
~ Sharon Creech
I had not said anything about what had happened the day before—about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.
~ Sharon Creech
I was sitting in the backseat with my brother, Luke, a seven-year-old complexity. Sometimes he acted as if he were two, and sometimes twelve. He was full of questions and energy and opinions except when you wanted him to have any of those things.
~ Sharon Creech
I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball. I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family.
~ Sharon Creech
She was my mother, and she was part of me.
~ Sharon Creech
I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.
~ Sharon Creech
My middle name, Tree, comes from your basic tree, a thing of such beauty to my mother that she made it part of my name.
~ Sharon Creech