Quotes About Family

she was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.

It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.

Then they were moving again. Frank told her it was because of Benni, the nursemaid who looked after them. Benni was half Chinese, that golden skin. Her mother was ordinary Australian, was how Benni put it. That

I looked at some old photos Mom took of me and Dad for some photography project or other and tried to see if he listened to me back then, if we were close. But how can you tell? Just because people smile for photos doesn't mean they're happy.

I know I should try harder to make her feel necessary in my life. It totally freaked her when I said I didn't need her anymore. But isn't that the whole point of growing up? A healthy bird can fly the nest? Roots and wings and all that Hallmarky crap?

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

You are so bullheaded!" cried Aethra. "You must have gotten it from your father." "I don't think so," muttered Po.

During those years, Leda and Tyndareus stepped down from their thrones, and Helen and Menelaus became the new queen and king of Sparta. In time, they had a daughter of their own, Hermione.

Governments who manipulate population growth have two choices: making maternity pleasant, or making it inescapable.

It was a place where folks were happy simply to get on with life: raise their families, do good work, live decent lives.

And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.

we are who we are because of those we we choose to love and because of those who love us

Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.

The secret of my mincemeat was handed down to me by my dear mother. In a word, suet.

fifteen-year-old from Shepherd's Bush, West London, who had poisoned himself with carbolic acid. His father had given him a 'good hiding', the paper reported, because he had been out of work for a month. The boy left a note reading 'I wish you to know the reason I did it is because I could not work', but the judge none the less ascribed his death to his consumption of 'literary offal'.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

was always me worrying about Chloe

And as I'm leaving, my mother has the housekeeper hand me a shopping bag of food. I could win a bloody Oscar for a film someday, and my mother would still be asking me if I had enough clean clothes for the week.

There was only one child, a 21-year-old daughter, and natch

Robert said. "Probate, creditors, the plant

It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone. From "Becoming Queen Victoria