Quotes About Family

Only a weak man fails to honor his parents.

No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

Gabriel was remarried, a father, and the chief of the Office. The restorer was restored.

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

SI is Samuel Isakowitz, my father." Isherwood's voice choked with tears. "This painting was taken from my father's gallery on the rue de la Boétie in Paris by the Nazis in June of 1940." "You're certain?" Anna asked. "I'd stake my life on it." "Then please accept it, along with the deepest apologies of the Rolfe family." Then she kissed his cheek and said, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Isherwood.

Miss Herzfeld kept walking. And she never looked back. Not once. And she never saw her family again. Within three weeks, they were dead. But not Miss Herzfeld. She was alive because she had blonde hair. And her sister had been turned to ashes because hers was dark.

When we are wronged, we must seek revenge. It is in our culture, our bloodstream. Each time you kill or torture us, you are creating an extended family of enemies that is honor bound to take retribution. - Ibrahim Fawaz

your mother's

who famously dismissed the clientele of the Hôtel Grand Courchevel as "the elderly and their parents.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

You know what they say about family, don't you?" "What's that?" "It's the other F-word.

Russian men don't always make the best fathers. Unfortunately, is is a cultural trait they pass on to their sons. - Elena Kharkov

For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things . One can't grieve properly. One can only think of vengeance. - Ari Shamron I

As a result he hated Gabriel, in the way a second son hates an elder

face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

There's something about death that gets our attention. When it's close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to our most basic understanding of things. Back to our presuppositions you might say. Death requires of us an explanation. Some invoke the periodic table, some the human condition, and some go back to church—at least for a while.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

He thought she hung the moon. He actually believed this from time to time. He believed the moon wouldn't have been there but that she'd hung it. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. For her, his daughter. He had told her this when she was little to make her happy, and now that he was old he believed it, because it made him happy and because he was so very old. He