Quotes About Family

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Lee was my father's lawyer, a mensch. But he's been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic." "That's one of the worst. A killer." "Yes, the ones that kill you are definitely the worst. [...]

They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

There is nothing like destruction for creating a warm sense of camaraderie, and for a few minutes there in the rough-and-tumble of it all we actually felt like a big happy family.

I think those people are fantastically lucky who live in houses where they can call out and expect someone to answer.

Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Land belongs to everyone and should be shared with everyone, any family of four or six people is supported well with 12 hectares of land. Any family of more than six people is supported with 25 hectares of land. A single individual can live with 6 hectares, land belongs to everyone, and to work the land we can share it among us, nobody is more than anyone, no one has special privileges.

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.

I love all things Christmas.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

Unlock the door?' he asks. This family is an experiment, the biggest I've ever been part of, an experiment called: How do you let someone in? 'Unlock the door,' he says again. 'Please.' I release the lock. I open the door. That's the best definition of love.

There are two rooms used as libraries, for which my mother and grandfather keep two separate and opposing systems of organization in their heads—hers by subject, his by the way he feels about the author: Animosity, Betrayed, Curious, Delighted, etc.

Ouch." Mr. Bell grabs his arm. Blood darkens his sleeve. "That's a bit sore, Mardellion. And not entirely fair." The tiny bombs that parents bury under their child's skin take years to explode.