Quotes About Family

The kids had already mangled the fruit plate, but the sashimi- fresh raw tuna- fanned out in cool pink glory next to makizushi sushi rolls. Marinated mochiko chicken still steamed, crispy fresh from the deep fryer, and Grandma's homemade pickled vegetables- takuwan and tsukemono- lay in small dishes next to it. "Oooh, one of the aunties made shrimp tempura." Trish piled hand-battered, deep-fried shrimp on a paper plate.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Darling boysy...me loves you, oh so very tenderly...you must always tell me everything, you can fully trust me, look upon me as a bit of yourself...How I love you, darling treasure, my very own one. —Alix, to Nicholas II

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

She has, however, noticed one important difference between crows and us: their families are generally more peaceful than ours sometimes are. No matter what the provocation, family members usually work out their differences without violence or any other signs of overt aggression.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I learned to accept my family for who they were and understand that, though they might be limited in certain areas, they all had good qualities that I could appreciate.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Siempre. Del latín semper, significa "en todo momento". Y se preguntó si su madre pensaría de cuánto tiempo estaban hablando y qué ocurriría después. Porque es evidente que en algún momento las madres deben dejar de cuidar de sus hijos.

Si las mujeres de esta familia no hubieran sido tan estúpidas y los hombres tan ambiciosos, se habrían ahorrado años de dolor.

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

Das Roß fegt dahin zwischen sanft geschwungenen, grauglitzernden Buchenstämmen — quer durchs deutsche Märchen, durchs nächtige, reiten die Vettern hinüber zum Hohlweg, zum Treffpunkt — hinter sich verbrennend alle Schiffe und Brücken.

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living sense of the rhythm of growth, flowering and decay.

through their families—and those families are important models for the rest of us

An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next

Being beaten by a "loved one" sets up a conflict between two instincts that should never compete: the instinct to stay in a secure environment (the family) and the instinct to flee a dangerous environment. As if on a see-saw, the instinct to stay prevails in the absence of concrete options on the other side. Getting that lop-sided see-saw off the ground takes more energy than many victims have.