Quotes About Family

But the scent of my father's hate could not be washed entirely away. It clung to my skin, a faint rotten spell.

Your father threw away the greatest gift your mother could bestow- the gift of what their love created.

I will make many mistakes, have many regrets, take many risks, but I will not do what my father did. I will not turn my back on love.

The wound I had seen in my stepmother's eyes.

What happend to her? To Miranda?' Ulysses shrugged. 'What happens to most children. She got sick, and never got better.' 'And your wife?' 'The same.' 'But you said you were married,' said Will, glancing down at Ulysses's ring, smooth and lustrous in the half-light. 'I'll always be married. But it'll be the next world when I see her again.

Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him the next time he kicked me out of his room. He never would believe he was the same brother who had once tried to knock me out with a pillow.

You know how to fire this?" he asked. Thomas took Ulysses's gun. It looked absurdly large in his thin hands, but he released the safety like a professional. "My father taught me," he explained. "Good." Ulysses turned to the man kneeling before him. "This boy's in charge now. You'll do as he says. If you don't--as you can see, his father taught him how to shoot you.

Deal. The pee nappies are yours.' Then she added, 'Your father can take care of the shitty ones.' Their laughter echoed through the deserted harbour. Anna would always remember that moment as one of the best in her life. That moment when the ice thawed.

Forgive Olof? When he had robbed them of their childhood, turned them into adults who clung to each other like victims of a shipwreck? He was the driving force behind everything they had done, everything they still were doing.

were adopted by Nelly, isn't that right?

the bond between mother and daughter was so strong in the beginning that it functioned as both a shackle and a lifeline.

la tarta del tigre casera de Berit. Una receta guardada

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

La ley prohibe que en tu testamento dispongas: con el solomillo de mi cadaver se hara roast-beef para mis hijos y nietos debera quedar dorado por fuera y sangrante por dentro y servirse con patatas hervidas al vapor.

Que no hay peor odio que el de la misma sangre, [...], porque a nadie se odia más con más intensos bríos que a aquello a que uno se parece y uno llega a aborrecer el parecido.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,' which means 'The whole world is a family.

In Cambodia, it's unfortunately common for husbands both to drink and to beat their wives. Other families are abandoned, left to fend for themselves. Instead, my husband runs through the city for the better part of the night to make sure that his wife and son are safe.

there is a declaration in our sacred texts that reads 'Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,' which means 'The whole world is a family.

Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.

I imagine this is how it must be with our ancestors. They watch us closely, full of love and concern, sometimes whispering encouragement through a crack, but mostly just satisfied to know that we are happy.