Quotes About Family

Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world-- the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?

Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this? Chris: The business! The business doesn't inspire me. Keller: Must you be inspired? Chris: Yes. I like it an hour a day. If I have to grub for money all day long at least at evening I want it beautiful. I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can give myself to. Annie is in the middle of that.

Eddie Carbone had never expected to have a destiny. A man works, raises his family, goes bowling, eats, gets old, and then he dies. Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

Willy: Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swings between them? Linda: Yeah, like being a million miles from the city.

ANN: Nobody was dressed so he drove over to the depot to pick up my brother. SUE: Oh, your brother's in? ANN: Yeah, they ought to be here any minute now. Will you have a cold drink? SUE: I will, thanks. Ann goes to table and pours. My husband. Too hot to drive me to beach.—Men are like little boys; for the neighbors they'll always cut the grass.

MOTHER: What more can we be! CHRIS: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's why he died.

LINDA, resigned: Well, you'll just have to take a rest, Willy, you can't continue this way. WILLY: I just got back from Florida. LINDA: But you didn't rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear.

WILLY: Biff is a lazy bum! LINDA: They're sleeping. Get something to eat. Go on down. WILLY: Why did he come home? I would like to know what brought him home. LINDA: I don't know. I think he's still lost, Willy. I think he's very lost. WILLY: Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. There's one thing about Biff—he's not lazy.

But to be in possession of undisturbed leisure, is far from being the common lot; nay, it is something alien to human nature, for the ordinary man's destiny is to spend life in procuring what is necessary for the subsistence of himself and his family;

El fin último de todo asunto amoroso es más importante que todos los demás fines de la vida del hombre; y por lo tanto, es merecedor de la profunda seriedad con que cada uno lo persigue. En efecto, lo que aquí se decide es nada menos que la composición de la siguiente generación.

No se acude al matrimonio en busca de una conversación ingeniosa, sino para engendrar hijos; el matrimonio es la alianza de dos corazones, no de dos cerebros.

Si resuena el Avapiés en mí, como fondo sobre todas las resonancias de mi vida, es por dos razones: Allí aprendí todo lo que sé, lo bueno y lo malo. A rezar a Dios y a maldecirle. A odiar y a querer. A ver la vida cruda y desnuda, tal como es. Y a sentir el ansia infinita de subir y ayudar a subir a todos el escalón de más arriba. Esta es una razón. La otra razón es que allí vivió mi madre. Pero esta razón es mía.

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself.

a) Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. (b) Cleverness didn't necessarily make a good prime minister. (c) If a person couldn't even run a pickle factory profitably, how was that person going to run a whole country? And, most important of all: (d) All Indian mothers are obsessed with their sons and are therefore poor judges of their abilities.

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

It was the kind of time in the life of a family when something happens to nudge its hidden morality from its resting place and make it bubble to the surface and float for a while. In clear view. For everyone to see.

Ammu, Chako said, his voice steady and deliberately casual, is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything? Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge. 'Washed-up' cut like a knife through a soft thing. The sun shone with a shuddering sigh. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.

Reverend Ipe realized that his daughter had by now developed a "reputation" and was unlikely to find a husband. He decided that since she couldn't have a husband there was no harm in her having an education.

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced.

Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.

It had been quiet in Estha's head until Rahel came. But with her she had brought the sound of passing trains, and the light and shade that falls on you if you have a window seat.