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Quotes About Family

My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.
~ Sue Townsend
Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him … yet he chatted away with his mother. He would never have confessed to her how he suffered over these things and she only partly guessed." D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
~ Sue Townsend
My own improverished family benefit from Nigel's impetuousness. We are all walking around in Nigel's new old shoes. Even Grandma is wearing a pair. They are too big for her but, with the wisdom of the old, she found a way of making them fit by stuffing the toes with toilet paper.
~ Sue Townsend
Found strange device in bathroom this morning. It looked like an egg timer. It said "Predictor" on the side of the box. I hope my Mother is not dabbling with the occult
~ Sue Townsend
Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.
~ Sue Townsend
Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it's you
~ Sue Townsend
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.
~ Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
~ Sue Townsend
Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
~ Sue Townsend
Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter was dropped on her head as a child and has been "a bit queer" ever since.
~ Sue Townsend
I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.
~ Sue Townsend
I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
~ Suge Knight
How can you speak to your father like that? He's your hero," Camellia said, favoring her husband with a final smile as he departed to register himself as Perveen's advocate. "How many fathers can stand up for their daughters in such a manner?
~ Sujata Massey
You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!" Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.
~ Sujata Massey
She had never been happier than as a solicitor. Whether she was working on a rental contract or a business settlement, she was building Bombay. Her sense of duty to the city was almost as strong as to her family.
~ Sujata Massey
Being the first family in the place means no breadcrumbs in drawers or stains in the bath. I absolutely adore it. We wanted a home big enough for Alice to knock around in.
~ Sujata Massey
If a younger sister marries before an older brother, people will believe she had to marry for reasons of pregnancy. Every bead of her reputation will be sold.
~ Sujata Massey
They ignored the fact that marriage is the most serious contract that can be undertaken. Such a union should not come about without investigation. My wife and I expected we would be well acquainted with a groom and his family.
~ Sujata Massey
After leaving Calcutta, she had pledged to herself not to disrespect her father. He'd taken her back without question, paid for her to study in England, and hired her as his employee when no other law firm in Bombay would.
~ Sujata Massey
The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn't money; it's a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he's staying.
~ Suketu Mehta
After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.
~ Summer Glau
Today I got up & decided that from today I will pursue what I love... Then my son came & said Papa I love you...........
~ Suneel Gupta
Mother role is the mother of roles a woman plays...
~ Sunil Joyia
When I was prime minister people made a lot of fun of the fact that aye Nawaz Sharif prime minister saara kuj Abba jee kolon jaa ke puchda aye (This prime minister Nawaz Sharif consults his father on every matter)!
~ Supriya Nair