Quotes About Family

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

When a family member's behavior threatens to knock the nice right out of us, we can pause. Recalculate. Punch in a different destination for the words now downloading from our brains onto our tongues. We can program them to first stop at gentleness, swing by to pick up respect, and finally — arrive with grace.

Maybe if we focused less on what we do and more on who — and whose — we are, we can find that super mom status we are really longing for.

But better a bleeding tongue than a family member's wounded heart. We might have to choose to let go of the need to prove our point, choosing instead to do the right thing: to impart grace and deal with the other person in love and with utmost patience.

David and Raymond discussed their childhoods and Raymond said that after the twins left the farm, Domko occasionally beat him as well. They had a few long talks and were able to settle their differences. had a few long talks and settled their differences. They discussed their childhoods and Raymond admitted that Domko had occasionally beaten him as well.

Home is where some know who you are ..From the poem 'The Children's Exodus

So I am of Father's blood, but not yours?" "You are of his blood and of my heart, and what could matter more than that?

We love you, our angel, and always will," Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as "the Benjamins." After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father's and Rachel's children and had many older half brothers.

daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

I was grateful I'd been in a plane crash. I got to see my grandfather every single day for months. If that plane hadn't plummeted, we would have stalled at spaghetti Tuesdays. And that's the truth. ... And I didn't ask God why I was in the random plane crash that caused Grandpa to come and live with us. I just bit my lip and said, Thank you.

Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.

Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.

I turn my back on him as he goes, and settle myself in the parlor, and touch Ma's piano. My fingers leave sighs in the dust.

Daddy named me Billie Jo. He wanted a boy. Instead, he got a long legged girl with a wide mouth with cheekbones like bicycle handles. He got a redheaded, freckle faced, narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and hunger for playing fierce piano.

By the summer I turned nine Daddy had given up about having a boy. He tried making me do.

the funny thing is that my mom can't draw at all!

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

You know how everything seems so normal when you're growing up," she asked plaintively, "and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?

behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes.

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.