Quotes About Family

Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.

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You see, his father wasn't married to his mother…." "Really? I had no idea of that." "Everyone knows about it down here, otherwise I wouldn't have said anything about it.

Father looked thoughtfully at the two women facing him. Mother and daughter. There was, he noted, a strong superficial likeness between them. He could understand how for one moment in the fog he had taken Elvira Blake for Bess Sedgwick.

No, Mr. Fortescue, it was among your father's papers

After all, this is a free country—" "English people seem to labour under that misapprehension," murmured Poirot. "And I should hope anyone can leave their money exactly as they choose! I think Miss Arundell acted very wisely. Obviously she mistrusted her own relatives and I daresay she had her reasons.

That child, said Sophia, is a bit of a problem.

Not selfish things, not things for herself; who could give to unwanted children love, care, a home. All these things she could buy for them, but not their love for her.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

one of the best things that can happen to you is, i think, a happy childhood.

Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o. Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea. Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.

Eu trebuie s? m? gândesc mereu la moartea mamei, ca s? nu m? ia prin surprindere.

VISEZ CA MAMA MOARE! IMI LASA O CUTIE CU BATAILE INIMII EI.

Sîntem oameni buni pentru c? sîntem ortodoc?i, spune mama. Ce înseamn? ortodox? Asta e cînd crezi în Dumnezeu, spune ea. La ortodoc?i se obi?nuie?te mai ales s? se cînte, s? se m?nînce ?i s? se fac? rug?ciuni. Dar eu nu am fost niciodat? acolo.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Det tog mig många år att inse vilken makt pappas tystnad hade utövat. Ja, mäns envisa tigande.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Tutti cercavano di nascondere al nonno le sue condizioni e la situazione che ci circondava. Il nonno sapeva tutto, ma non permetteva che la confusione ed il caos lo sommergessero. Parlava della morte come usava parlare prima di ogni lngo viaggio. (...) Andavo a trovarlo una volta al giorno. (...) Una volta mi raccontò una parabola che non riuscii a capire; lui parve accorgersene e disse: "Non fa niente, l'importante è amare questa mattinata".

Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that?

It was enough to see her face light up when we heard the sounds that told us my brother was come home, or to catch the sudden tenderness that came into is eyes when he looked at he, to realise the depth of the love that had grown between those two strange hearts.

But I believe that even without the consideration of his family he would find it impossible to live abroad. He would be a man without a purpose; for his purpose, his vocation, is Egypt.