Quotes About Family

With the departure of the acknowledged head of the Catholic party, the Protestants gained a degree of influence over the royal family completely out of proportion to their numbers in the general population.

Now, that isn't to say that I don't think Cain should have at least counted to ten, like I was trying to do, but maybe Abel was a meddler, just like my sister. And perhaps, even though Cain had repeatedly told him to back off, Abel decided to stick his nose into his brother's business one to many times—thus deserving a good wallop on the noggin after all.

She...ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter....

indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, Fancy? I think they hardly knew why, themselves.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Undeniable; Jennifer was one of those women whose meaning, if they have one, is only apparent to husband and children

I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

It is unfair' was a perpetual cry of the Radletts when young. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Sure enough, standing with their backs to the hall fire, were Aunt Sadie, Aunt Emily, and a small, fair, and apparently young man. My immediate impression was that he did not seem at all like a husband. He looked kind and gentle.

ahí está el padre acurrucado casi para que yo encontrara vida y pudiera existir allí donde no estuvo (de La Cena)

Undoubtedly, the place to start with Chinese fiction is with Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century classic, A Dream of Red Mansions, a sweeping epic about family life and Confucian practices in feudal China, including numerous subplots, a gazillion characters, and a touching love story.

Food played a major role in the lives of both Ruth Reichl (longtime New York Times restaurant critic and editor-in-chief of Gourmet, who wrote about her lifelong interest in food in two memoirs, the best of which is the first, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table) and Patricia Volk (who wrote about her life in Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family).

Daddy Was a Numbers Runner by Louise Meriwether is the story of Francie Coffin, who is growing up in the spirit-deadening ghettos of Harlem in the 1930s, in a family struggling to survive intact.

Unless a suburban woman is in the relatively rare position of commanding a high salary, and is able to find and afford top-quality child care, she may find herself in a no-win situation

Life on the road, even for a worldly man like C. W. Post and his well-bred daughter, presented certain challenges. although he could order meals, fasten Marjorie's buttons, and make sure that she was properly dressed, C. W. could not fix her hair.

If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one? I shook my head. I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

The bestowing of chrysanthemums indicates familial attachment and, by implication, affection.

one cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams. I considered that, if I were not true to myself, then all the mothering I could give you would have been falsehood

Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.

One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams.

however, that most married women disappeared into the house every year

That's what Gran always said. I'm too impatient. If you'd ever tried knitting, you'd understand." "I can knit," he said. Okay, that surprised me so much I choked on a sip of sherry. "Seriously?

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.