Quotes About Family

My mom used to argue that tombstones don't list jobs. They list relationships—daughter, wife, mother. Forget everything else right now; I need to recoup the wife part.

So is it worse," Zoe asked, eyes haunted, "when someone who is all alone dies, or when someone dies and leaves family and friends? I don't know.

I was just about to call out to him when a woman followed him out of the townhouse. She was carrying a little boy. As I stood there watching, my father took the little boy from her and held him. He wrapped his other arm around the woman.

Which is more abiding – a mother's love or a child's need for it?

If you no longer have a child, are you still a mother?

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging. If nothing else, you can gather your own thoughts, write down ideas, observe people around you, and reflect on experiences. Working doesn't always mean putting words on paper.

he couldn't deny the unexpected rush of pleasure at the pairing of his great-nephew with Lizbet Blythe's granddaughter. "One for you, Sam!" Daisy Vashon exclaimed from behind his right shoulder. The five of them—Sam, Daisy, JW Sterling, Lizbet and Hannah Sprite—were clustered around the computer screen in his garage at the Sunny Autumn Seniors Community in Port Aidin, Florida. "Logan Edwards and Jade Korrigan," Hannah read aloud from behind

absolutely no factual information whatsoever." JW would admit that his newly discovered grandson, Morgan Holbrook,

Our space was a home because we loved each other in it.

Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something good or bad happens in my life, I still wonder what my mom would think. I've lived more of my life without her than with her, but it still matters.

known as the middle." He tipped his head. "Yes. What about you? Big family?" "No. I'm an only child." It was part of the backstory she'd made up before coming to the island; it was also partly true. "I used to wish I had a big family." "It's not all it's cracked up to be," he said dryly. "A lot of noise and chaos." "And love," she suggested, feeling an ache that went deep into her

A few," she admitted. "But not too many. This house doesn't really hold my memories. Our family home—the one we lived in when my mom was alive—was much harder to give up. But I've learned that love isn't in what we have; it's who we're with. I'm just glad I'm with you.

there was no greater joy than having a child, no matter how much pain or how many problems they bring with them.

He really should have listened to his grandfather, because three weeks after he'd arrived, all hell had broken loose. Not with the project. The construction of phase one was on budget and on time. His professional life was in sync, but his personal life was a mess. All

Maybe we both need to realize that we're giving our families and our pasts too much power over us.

Your family loves you. I love you. With love comes concern. Don't try to fight it, because you won't win. We all worry about the people we love the most, you included.

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.