Quotes About Family

Eat and dine with your relatives; never do any business with them

Getting old is scary business. Seems to me when a body has worked hard all his life and never earned nothing extra to put away, there ought to be some way to make his last days peaceful. I'll tell you, I don't want to live off my kids, and I sure don't want to live in some old folks home on charity. Best way, I reckon, is not to think about it, but that ain't my way of doing things.

A father lives after death in his son.

It's only after people die that we realise how much we love them. We must wait until then to show him how much he means to us all.

Una vieja crónica tailandesa hace la siguiente descripción de los farang: "Son excesivamente altos, peludos y desaseados. Educan a sus hijos durante mucho tiempo y consagran su vida a acumular riquezas. Sus mujeres, grandes y robustas, son muy bellas. No cultivan arroz".

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

Saya sama sekali tidak suka dikontrakkan. Soalnya, tidak jelas keluarga macam apa yang akan tinggal. Kalau yang menghuni saya nanti amat sangat berengsek, tidak suka membaca cerita pendek, tidak berpengetahuan, tidak intelek, dan suka masak jengkol, apa saya bisa protes dan mengusirnya?

I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle

We shall give, says father.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Children survived, if they had half a chance. Children who could form attachments survived best.

She must not interfere in her children's lives, but neither could she look away, no matter how much trouble they made for themselves.

In the quiet Rosa came forward and put an arm around her sister. They looked so much alike, and were so different in the way they saw the world. She wondered if Rosa might have been a child more like her sister if circumstance hadn't demanded the impossible of her.

Women who sought ways to limit the size of their families were to Comstock proof that humankind was on the brink of self-destruction. But not all women; he focused his ire on white women of good families, who were obliged, in his view of the world, to provide heirs for the ruling class.

My father," said Elizabeth, "is made of the same fabric as my uncle Merriweather and every other Englishman I've ever come across. He cannot see my point, because he cannot see me. Do you realize that, Curiosity? He sees me as a—commodity. The person I am, that person is invisible to him.

Hannah thought of her family and willed them well, and safe, and free of worry for things they could not help or change.

Young children bump heads and sprain limbs and weep over lost toys, but the heartbreak of a grown child draws blood.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. —Gabriel García Márquez

All I want is a household of my own," Margaret said. "With my own people, who look to me first instead of last.

It was the most difficult problem they faced. A problem without a solution, and repercussions that were all too real: at one extreme another child might be born into a family of six or eight or more, living in a single room without a window or a privy. On the other extreme were the midwives and doctors who might be sent to prison or harassed until nothing remained of their careers. One

The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.

Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,

What you have to understand about the Guccis," Jenny told a journalist in 1994, "is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it's as simple as that!

The most important thing parents can do for their children, it is said, is love each other.