Quotes About Family

Ferenc himself departed his native Hungary, along with his mother and younger brother, for an aunt's house in Reading, Pennsylvania.

It had been presented by his great-grandfather to his great-grandmother on their wedding day. Interesting present, he thought to himself.

On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox walked out of Capanne Prison a free woman, escorted by her family, on her way to a flight back home to Seattle, while Raffaele Sollecito headed to his father's house and liberty, soon to enroll at the University of Verona to continue his college studies.

Love, sex, family, the pleasures of food, intellectual delight, friendship, appreciation of beauty, the pleasure of exercise and good health, the excitement of sport and adventure -- all these qualities were given to us, not by God, but by evolution.

He said we didn't merit a family all by ourselves. I'm not sure I would go that far, but it's an interesting thought. And an idea influenced, no doubt, by the existence of Jennie. In the end, you see, because of Jennie, he lost his objectivity.

You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.

You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Don't go," said Cedric. "Murder has made you practically one of the family.

Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.

With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they were like.

For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.

And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy.

It is well at any price to have peace in the home.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.

I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.