Quotes About Family

Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda.

Unless you have singing in the family and singing in the house, singing everywhere, until it becomes a habit, you never can have congregational singing; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of rock, one drop here and another there; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof.

Righteousness is as hereditary as vice, and godly men transmit moral qualities to their children, and to their children's children.

A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

charity begins in your own family.

The development of a country has to start at the foundation of the society, the "family".

Maybe you don't want divorce?" Varya asked slowly. "Maybe you only talk, talk, talk divorce?" "Oh, mother," Nancy-Anastasia said. "Aha!" Varya pointed a finger at her daughter. "Na vore shapka goreet! Means: on thief . . ." "On a thief the hat burns," I said.

When her mother saw Andrea, she took her hand in hers and sobbed: "We're orphans now!" It struck Andrea as false, somehow—the tear-stained face, the trite words.

I've been a good mother," she said. It was a plea rather than an affirmation.

She hoped the examination would not take too long because she had to take Patty to her art class, shop for tonight's dinner, and fix the hem of Patty's new dress for her sixth birthday party next week.

Dear Bea—Can't make it today—sorry. Parent arriving lunch per. to ask why son got 35% on Midterm. Must answer him. How? Sylvia Dear Syl—Don't try. There's no communication; no one really listens. Every man is an island. Give him a container of coffee instead. Bea

Smart," Varya said. "Lyubov ne kartoshka; ne vikinesh v okoshko. Means: love is not potato; can not throw out of window. Means: with love you stawck. Look on Nancy-Anastasia. My daughter. Beautiful? Yes. Happy? No. She and hawsband wait only divorce.

Shortly after my arrival, I discovered that Nancy-Anastasia and poor Walter were also living in the house, in a ground floor room, in order to save money for their divorce. "They're living together?" I asked. "Is Okay. Is Rrawshian saying: 'Not everybody who snore is sleeping.

A life to live is not a field to cross; yet, somehow, in her chaotic way, Varya was able to keep the house going.

far as I was concerned we were extremely lucky to have a mother who was so devoted, so encouraging, such fun—how ungrateful would it be to focus on a disappeared dad? Shouldn't we be glad for the good things?

I love you, Mom." Her mother's eyes were awash with tears. "And I've never loved anyone more than I love you." They hugged for a long time, both of them crying.

Sarah had finally caught that brass ring she'd been reaching for her whole life. Family. Friends. Love.

After spending time with Rosa during these past weeks, Suzanne understood precisely why her brother

everyone's father or mother or child

Heck, he would happily have enough kids with Molly to make their own soccer team.

But always remember that in the end, love and family are the only things that really matter.