Quotes About Family

It was probable that the widow knew more than others suspected of insanity in the Buchenau family, for there was an unsolved mystery lying half a century in the past, when Clara's uncle Hugo, a darkly moody man, had shot himself in an orchard one May morning, scattering his brains among the blossoms, and soon after, Clara's father had sunk into a deep depression and had at last to be taken to Mendota as insane, and there died.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.

Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now...this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.

CORY: You ain't never gave me nothing! You ain't never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. I used to tremble every time you called my name. Every time I heard your footsteps in the house. Wondering all the time...what's Papa gonna say if I do this?...What's he gonna say if I do that?...What's Papa gonna say if I turn on the radio? And Mama, too...she tries...but she's scared of you.

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

The past is a tyrant and it won't allow my family to come back to me. But the present generously lifts my downcast face and makes me see that, although I can't change what I was, I can construct what I will be.

Padres e hijos viven distantes, rara vez lloran juntos y comentan sus sueños, dolores, alegrías, frustraciones.

que as crianças mais precisam não é de roupa de grife, grandes presentes, Internet, mas de alegria, simplicidade, brincadeiras ao ar livre e do carinho e dedicação dos pais. Os pais que dão o mundo para elas, mas não dão a si mesmos e não as ensinam a pensar, geram crianças frágeis, dependentes e despreparadas para enfrentar os desafios dos labirintos.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Family! Our families determine who we are, determine who we're not. All our relationships with everybody we ever meet for the rest of our lives is based on the way we relate to the members of our family. No wonder the world's so fucked up.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

The Seder is long, but delightful, and no matter how sleepy we feel at the end of it we are very happy.

I once asked a little boy why he liked Passover the best of the Jewish festivals. He answered at once, "Because of the Cyder nights." He meant "Seder" nights, the first two evenings of the festivals, and I had expected that would be his answer. Then I asked him why he liked the Seder nights, and he replied, after thinking a minute, "Because I am allowed to stay up late."

Enjoy beautiful moments with people you love and deepen your relationships with them.

the day I die will never come tis' that day should be the day I die as I die I shall lie as ashes with the ones I love most

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.