Quotes About Family

This day I have the news that my sister was married on Thursday last to Mr. Jackson; so that work is, I hope, well over.

The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

I had a mother, I had a father. Now I don't remember their names. I don't remember mine. In another room, two people are sleeping who are nearer to me by how many years and thousands of miles; for whom, in this terrifying light, I would almost admit love.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

We had a small above-ground swimming pool in the back garden and I have a photo of my father sitting in the canoe and sipping whisky while floating in the pool. He had bought it from a second-hand shop and I suspect my dad had been drinking before the purchase as well as after.

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

You are thinking of the past." I put my arms around her. She'd risen from childbed too soon. "We are the past," she said.

Thanks a bunch, brother. Remind me to thank you with a fist in your fool face.

which Tante Lulu countered,

the Breauxs, and she was, after all,

It was a love story, of course, which held the women in thrall, even though most of them had heard it many times before, but it was also a poignant story of the love two brothers had for each other.

A guy could starve to death when his brother don't come home.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

We did it, Mom! I knew we'd pull it off," Emma said as she shared her scrambled eggs with Halo the next morning at breakfast. Since they'd moved back to Wisconsin, Halo had become a bona fide Midwesterner, preferring mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs to seeds or fruits.

Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell.

Monica experienced a vague discomfort at the idea that both her late grandfather and the Almighty Father were inside her mother's swimwear.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

Even with overcast skies, papa bear always finds time to smile.