Quotes About Family

There's not a place like home

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos, pasaron

murió María Esther antes que llegáramos a comprometernos. Entramos en los cuarenta años con la inexpresada idea de que el nuestro, simple y silencioso matrimonio de hermanos, era necesaria clausura de la genealogía asentada por nuestros bisabuelos en nuestra casa.

No tiene familia, es un escritor.

ahora tengo que convencerme de que eso está en la familia, que no sos diferente aunque siempre te esperé como la excepción, ese momento en que todo lo abrumador se detiene para que entre lo liviano, la espuma de la charla y la vuelta de las esquinas;

Pasa que los cronopios no quieren tener hijos, porque lo primero que hace un cronopio recién nacido es insultar groseramente a su padre, en quien oscuramente ve la acumulación de desdichas que un día serán las suyas.

Entramos en los cuarenta años con la inexpresada idea de que el nuestro, simple y silencioso matrimonio de hermanos, era necesaria clausura de la genealogía asentada por los bisabuelos en nuestra casa. Nos moriríamos allí algún día, vagos y esquivos primos se quedarían con la casa y la echarían al suelo para enriquecerse con el terreno y los ladrillos; o mejor, nosotros mismos la voltearíamos justicieramente antes de que fuese demasiado tarde.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

a la vez que se arrepentían de no haber dedicado más tiempo a sus hijos. Su empeño por sacarlos adelante hizo que se olvidaran de ellos, lo cual era una contradicción.

Debía de ser muy triste, por más que fuera su decisión, abandonar su casa y hacerlo sola, puesto que la persona con la que la compartiste ya no está. Las hijas y, sobre todo, los nietos, la ayudarían a sobrellevarlo, pero la carga sentimental la iba a soportar ella.

You also, Brutus my son.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.

A father is a hard thing to compass.

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?

What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.