Quotes About Family

If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised.

Blood will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.

You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

even when someone is deserving of your anger, they're still deserving of compassion. It's hard to pull off, believe me—no one knows that more than me. And if you're only going to pull it off a handful of times in your life, why not for family?

Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone.

We have always been a family of fighters and spectators. Intervening with reason and consideration demonstrates a dangerous cultural ignorance.

We can all nod and smile and carry on our end of the conversation in an endless loop while our minds float somewhere outside our bodies. We are thinking about our kids, about finances and fiancees and soon-to-be ex wives, about the sex we're not having, the sex our soon-to-be ex wives are having, about loneliness and love and death and Dad, and this constant crowd is like a fog on a dark road; you just keep driving and watch it dissipate in your low beams.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he? Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it!

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

You know who you belong to, Jack?" "Yeah." "Yourself." He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.