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Quotes About Family

I'm going to tell Mom and Dad, you know? No, you're not. God, I couldn't stop laughing. When my sister thought about it for a second, I think she figured out why she wouldn't tell Mom or Dad. It's like she suddenly remembered where we were and what had just happened and how crazy our whole conversation was considering all that. Then, she started laughing.
~ Stephen Chbosky
You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words, you WON today, You are here. You are alive. You have options. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I hate you. My sister said it different than she said it to my dad . She meant it with me. She really did. I love you, was all I could say in return.
~ Stephen Chbosky
It's much easier not to know things sometimes and to have french fries with your mom be enough.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Mary Katherine had no way of understanding that her mother was not upset at her seventeen-year-old daughter because she was too relieved that the seventeen-week-old daughter that she remembered nursing hadn't died in that car accident last night. She had no way of knowing that no matter how big children feel, they will always look smaller to their parents.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I laid down on his old bed, and I looked through the window at this tree that was probably a lot shorter when my dad looked at it. And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. At least that's how he's put it.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Só queria que Deus, ou meus pais, ou minha irmã, ou alguém, me dissesse o que há de errado comigo. Que me dissesse como ser diferente de uma forma que faça sentido. Que fizesse tudo isso parar. E desaparecer. Sei que é errado, porque a responsabilidade é minha, e sei que as coisas pioram antes de melhorar porque é o que diz meu psiquiatra, mas essa fase pior está grande demais para mim.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just wanted to know what to buy my dad because I love him. And I don't know him. And he doesn't like to talk about things like that.
~ Stephen Chbosky
For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for both of them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know.
~ Stephen Chbosky
You know… a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too.
~ Stephen Chbosky
She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.
~ Stephen Chbosky
That's when I started thing about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.
~ Stephen Chbosky
A veces es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas y que tomar patatas fritas con tu madre sea suficiente para ti.
~ Stephen Chbosky
My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is too dry even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be a tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. It think that would be nice.
~ Stephen Chobosky
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.
~ Stephen Colbert
A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.
~ Stephen Colbert
You can't spell parentry without try. Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you . At least you know how those turn out.
~ Stephen Colbert
So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying to make them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God put them here to do: Everything.
~ Stephen Colbert
You only live through your kids once.
~ Stephen Colbert
As the governor scanned it, Swim explained. "Liberal progressive policies for the last fifty years or so have devastated the poor people of America. Welfare; aid to dependent families; food stamps; essentially free medical care; schools that try to prepare everyone for a four-year college degree, when only a fraction of the poor people will ever want or get one; lack of technical training; the breakdown of the black family—all those things have led us to where we are.
~ Stephen Coonts
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
~ Stephen Covey