Quotes About Family

The worthy ones, the secrets of consequence, swallow up the tongues of the living until they sleep together in the grave. Unseen forces, nevertheless they twist and mold unsuspecting lives, bruise and batter bewildered souls. Omerta -- what happens in the "family" stays in the family. Powerful, percolating, persistent, these insidious secrets are the ones I fear.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them. You sow your seeds, and reap what you sow.

Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battle and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.

the Williamses, Loralee and I had driven to a grocery store with the improbable name of Piggly Wiggly to pick

Is your father," Margie completed for me. "Which makes Prunella Pratt your father's stepmother, which I suppose means that Harry Pratt was your stepgrandfather? Or something like that.

I think we become good parents by either copying what our parents did or doing the opposite. The trick is in deciding which way you want to go.

There's something about mothers and daughters, I think, that makes us always want to hold close at the same time we try to push each other away.

I never thought my actions would cause you to leave. I'm so sorry." I closed my eyes briefly. "It's not what made me leave, Daddy. But it's one of the things that made it easy to stay away.

Weeds could be pulled and new seeds planted, hardened soil tilled and watered to make a fertile bed. Water could be piped in to make an old fountain cascade for the first time. Perhaps my relationship with my mother could be tended in the same way, with care and patience used to rebuild the bedrock of a mother-child bond that had been broken nearly thirty-three years before.

Home is a place that lives in one's heart, waiting with open arms to be rediscovered.

You have a daughter who's been through puberty," he said inquisitively. "So what was it like?" "Oh," Sejer said, looking out the window. "It was mostly Elise who handled that type of thing. But I do remember it. Puberty is a really rough time. She was a sunbeam until she turned thirteen, then she began to snarl. She snarled until she was fourteen, then she began to bark. And then it wore off.

To reach your children, Ruth thought, you have to take an interest in whatever is important to them...

It is a father's job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.

He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.

You dumb asshole," Ross said to Nate."You could be a freakin' amoeba and you'd still be a brother. And the only reason I'm not throwing a punch right now is because you had such a dipshit upbringing you don't get that.

For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but over time, as children become more self-directive, the immediate influence of parent support might wane.

Other resources located within the family also weigh on children's development. In figure 7.1, they are represented by parents' psychological support for their children's schooling, which preliminary analyses identified to be the key component of functional social capital as measured here.

Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school already behind on all criteria commonly used to gauge school readiness

Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow imprints itself on children's academic and personal development. This is one way stratification by family background is socially constructed: it is reinforced daily through life's experience and