Quotes About Family

They were Amy and Dan Cahill's parents, people who had died in an accidental fire years ago. Or maybe not so accidental.

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

paithin- ... he is orn! mother peytin's son, come to lead us to safety! zifnab- thats it! orn, favors his mother- roland- no, he doesnt. look! hes human! wouldnt mother whats- her - name's kid be and elf- wait! i know! he is one of the lords of thillia! come back to us, like the legend foretold! zifnab- that too! i dont know why i didnt recognize him. the spitting image of his father!

Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.

Haplo: 'single, alone.' That is your name and your destiny," said his father, his finger rough and hard on Haplo's chest. "Your mother and I have defeated the odds thrown for us already. Every Gate we pass from now on is a wink at fate. But the time will come when the Labyrinth will claim us, as it claims all except the lucky and the strong. And the lucky and the strong are generally the lonely. Repeat your name.

The old dwarf drew himself up. His height was no longer impressive: the bowed back would not straighten, the legs could no longer support the body without assistance. But Drugar, towering over his father, saw the dignity in the trembling stance, the wisdom in the dimming eyes, and felt himself a child again.

We raise our children to leave us. - Caramon Majere

I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

Ce que je veux paraître je le parais, belle aussi si c'est ce que l'on veut que je sois, belle, ou jolie, jolie par exemple pour la famille, pour la famille, pas plus, tout ce que l'on veut de moi je peux le devenir »

Pero el miedo no me abandonaba. Quería matar, a mi hermano mayor, quería matarle, llegar a vencerle una vez, una sola vez y verle morir.

Que je n'avais jamais vu ma mère dans le cas d'être folle. Elle l'était. De naissance. De sang. Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.

Se felicitaba de morir sin hijos; pues mis hijos se hubieran parecido a mí y ella les hubiera mostrado la misma aversión que a su padre. Aquella frase en la que supura tanto rencor fue la única prueba de amor que me haya dado Sabina.

O clérigo pensou em Pitágoras, em Nicolau de Cusa, em um certo Copérnico cujas teorias, recentemente expostas na escola, eram acolhidas com entusiasmo ou violentamente rechaçadas, e um movimento de orgulho recordou-lhe a condição de membro da industriosa e agitada família de homens que domestica o fogo, trasnforma a essência das coisas e esquadrinha o itinerário dos astros.

Katie's mum, Penny, said I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now. And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. He'll make mincemeat of you. He won't, Katie protested. I'm not going to fall for him. So why are you bothering at all? Just killing time until I die.

Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.

Friday morning and Bronte was reading her life story. I had to admit I was very interested. Ireland's small Anglo-Irish tribe was very different to the rest of us. They tended to be big landowners and have strong ties to England, often sending their kids to boarding school there.

She called Dad a bastard and made references to the regime in the house being similar to the one in Nazi Germany. But she actually went to her room. That was nothing short of miraculous.

It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers – they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them.

The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but the time rushes on, so quickly that in the end it doesn't seem to exist.It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

Sometimes, in fact, it was the people who loved us the most who felt it was their responsibility to train us to struggle.

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.

El mundo que queremos para nosotros y para nuestros hijos no surgirá de la velocidad de la electrónica sino de la calma interior que tiene su raíz en nuestras almas. Entonces, y sólo entonces, podremos crear un mundo que refleje el corazón en lugar de destrozarlo.

I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world would be the space my brother's body made.