Quotes About Family

Her power was the brilliance of her charm and it had brought her to where she was now. I had the feeling that neither her wife nor her son could diminish it. That quality must have condemned her to an ice-cold loneliness.

The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and an old person are living together—the deathly silence that, panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.

I'd never see my own grandmother again.

Alleine in einer nächtlichen Küche können einem die Gedanken nämlich für immer stehenbleiben, so ein Ort ist das. Auf keinen Fall sollte man sich lange darin aufhalten. Man darf die Mutter, die Ehefrau, die Tochter nicht dort einschließen. Neben tollen russischen Eintöpfen entstehen hier nämlich auch Mordgelüste und heimliche Alkoholikerinnen. In diesem großartigen Herzen des Hauses.

Eine gewisse Art von Liebe ist unbedingt nötig, um eine Familie zu erhalten. Liebe ist keine Form und kein Wort, sie ist ein bestimmter zustand. Sie ist die Erscheinungsform der Fähigkeit abzugeben. Es funktioniert nicht, wenn alle immer nur einfordern und nicht nach Kräften zu geben bereit sind. Die Stimmung in der Familie wird dann wie in einem Rudel hungriger Wölfe.

Non siamo nati solo per mangiare, né per guadagnare denaro, né per starcene senza far nulla, né per lasciare eredi, né tantomeno per invecchiare. Non siamo invece venuti al mondo perché dentro di noi brucia la fiamma di una passione? Non siamo qui, adesso, per amare i nostri cari e creare tanti bei ricordi, e portarli con noi fino a quando moriremo, senza rimpianti?

If Dad's spirit needed pacifying, well, this life would have to be enough. It was the truest prayer I had to offer. Since what happened with Dad, we'd stopped wasting our lives, wasting time. We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

my mother disappeared from my life forever.

In qualunque famiglia ci sono problemi che visti dal di fuori sembrerebbero insuperabili. Eppure ogni giorno si mangia lo stesso, si fanno le pulizie, il tempo scorre senza troppi drammi, ci si abitua alle situazioni più assurde. In una famiglia c'è una promessa implicita, incomprensibile per gli altri, di restare uniti per quanto le cose possano farsi complicate

I was also learning that every single person in the world had been hurt by their family at some point. I wasn't special at all—some people dealt with it well, and some didn't, but that was the only difference, and either way, we were all nourished and cherished by our families, and at the same time limited and defined by them—that was what it meant to be human, I understood.

I had never cried this way in my life. As the hot tears poured out, I remembered that I had never had a proper cry over my grandmother's death. I had a feeling that I wasn't crying over any one sad thing, but rather for many.

I wondered whether that was the difference between having lost a father and lost a husband.

I guess my mom was all he had—the one flower that smelled like freedom. He

I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen.

Principalmente non si mangia mai da soli. Il cibo è determinante alla comunicazione tra le persone. Il cibo e la famiglia, per questo ne ho fatto un simbolo.

When I woke up, for a second, I could still vividly feel the sensation of my arms around my mother's neck, and my chest against hers. I was overcome by such a deep yearning that I cried as much as I'd ever cried in my life.

My dad never meant to die and leave us, and my mother didn't really want to hurt me, and if I'd had my way we'd all have lived together as a family for as long as we wanted.

More family memories.

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250 000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Blood calls to blood. Like to like.