Quotes About Family

Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.

As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled? If being a grown-up gave you some sort of special knowledge of the right things to do, how come his mother was sleeping with her masseuse, who had huge biceps and no brains?

so here he sits one drunk nigger in a puclic libary after closing, with the book open in front of me and the bottle of Old Kentucky on my left. 'Tell the truth and shame the devil,' my mom used to say , but she forgot to tell me that sometimes you can't shame Mr Splitfoot sober. The Irish know, but of course they're God's white niggers and who knows maybe they're a step ahead.

He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.

My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.

He felt as if someone had reached into his chest and cut off a tiny piece of his heart and made him eat it. His heart tasted very bitter to him, and he hated Peter more than ever, although part of him still loved his handsome older brother and always would. And although the taste had been bitter, he had liked it.Because it was his heart.

Has it ever occurred to you, he said abruptly, that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? I shook my head. Tell you what I think, he said, I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever the kid seemed to be dying.

You're my big brother. I knew you'd take care of me.

Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

I tell you what, there's nothing like having a mother around when you're thinking of scary shit.

Sometimes parents needed to be protected.

His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man who balled his socks before his wife—but it was sturdy and unswerving.

everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home, but at the end..you will be coming home, because..that's where you belong to..

your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad

keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.

Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life.

Family is the people you love who love you back.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.