Quotes About Family

If you don't want a child because you don't want one, that's one thing. But if you deny yourself the joy of fatherhood because of a dead man, then you're a coward.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

This here is: JESUS LAND

Mother's got romantic notions about toiling the land - or mostly, about her children toiling the land. And with fifteen acres, there's always something that needs toiling with.

Seems we can never just be brother and sister like in other families. Our whole lives, people have felt an urge to make up special names for what we are. at Lafayette Christian, we were the 'Oreo twins' or 'Kimberly and Arnold' after the characters on Diff'rent Strokes. And while those nicknames bugged us, they were certainly preferable to what they call us at Harrison

As we paint each other's nails Cinnamon Vixen, I consider telling her how bad things are at home. After she and Dan and Laura left for college, everything got worse. Mother's mood swings, Dad's violence, the name-calling at school.

Life has taught you many things, and the people close to you want you to have a good future, but it isn't their future in the end....its your choice you pick the path and lead the way. All your family will do is follow you while you are on that path and support you when you find the light at the end of your road.

Dr. Underkirk gave her his kind-and-understanding look. ... "Obviously, it's entirely up to what you and your husband think is best. But—and this is as a dad as well as a doctor—I subscribe to the airplane emergency rule in life." "Um . . . always sight your horizon before attempting a powerless landing?" He laughed. "No. Always secure your oxygen mask first before attending to your child.

Your mother swears you were sleeping through the night by your second month, but she was feeding you some god-awful concoction of Karo syrup and condensed milk. That's got to be enough calories to stun an ox, let alone an eight-week-old." "I've seen pictures. I looked like a prize porker headed for the Washington County Fair.

I'm calling you from the booking room. There are about a dozen cops and guards here, and every one of 'em knows I arrested my own mother for disorderly conduct. You know what she kept calling me in front of the bondsman?" [Russ] dropped his voice further. " 'Sweetie!' I'm never gonna live this down.

You may have tangible wealth untold; Casketes of jewels and coffers of gold, Richer than I you can never be— I had a Mother who read to me. —STRICKLAND GILLIAN

He tells them he and his wife are keeping the baby, because it's the last link to their little girl or some cowpuckie like that.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

Then again, wolf kids needed a wolf nanny. Or wolf manny in his case. The

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

Los niños quieren a sus padres, aunque estos no se lo merezcan; es inevitable.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.