Quotes About Family

Sometimes, of course, the sister's the wicked one, not the stepmother.

I explained we lost the porch to the flood. 'Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, it's good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

Together they forged a new world based on new ideas—what became known as the Renaissance. As a result, the city became the epicenter of a creative explosion, one of the most innovative eras in history. The effects of the Medici family can be felt even to this day.

remember that a gift is never deserved; if it were deserved it would be a payment. Do we wish to pay our family and friends? Of course not—so just give happily, and be happy when you too receive a gift you do not deserve.

Todas las noches me moría cuando oía los gritos ahogados de mamá al recibir los golpes paternos.

Yo maduraba mi venganza. No sabía cuál, pero iba a ser terrible, a la altura de los arranques de ira de papá que destrozaban cuanto se le ponía por delante. La casa. El cuerpo precioso de mamá. Mi dignidad y mi propia estima.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Viewed from a wholly logical point of view the bearing and rearing of children is a thoroughly unattractive proposition. To a woman it means pain and endless worry. To a man it means extra work extending over many years to support his family. So, if we were wholly logical about sex, we should probably not bother to reproduce at all. Nature takes care of this by making us utterly and wholly irrational.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others they are what we will become.

Times when families laugh together are among the most precious times a family can have.

Celebrate those who have loved us into being

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

When you're a parent you have a new chance to grow.

Parenthood is not learned: Parenthood is an inner change.

It's not possible to be a parent without having times of worry.

Really, it was my fickleness, I sometimes think, that they found unendurable. If I had restricted myself to only one of their sweet girls, and married her, and chewed her neck in private, I suppose I might, like any eccentric cousin, have been made almost welcome among family and friends in the circle of the hearth. But perhaps I misjudge what degree of eccentricity even an Englishman can tolerate.

I was alone before you came and would be still more alone if you threw me over, but I can't bear the idea of your being too ashamed of me to introduce me to your parents.