Quotes About Family

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so that wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. You still have a family, she whispers.

Pieces of my father's brain are on the asphalt.

It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists.

Cuando regresamos, el abuelo me dejó en casa y me abrazó. Normalmente se limitaba a estrechar la mano, o añadía una palmadita en la espalda en ocasiones muy especiales. Esa vez me dio un fuerte abrazo, y comprendí que era su manera de decirme que se lo había pasado de maravilla. –Yo también, abuelo –susurré.

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. "You still have family," she whispers.

so much my parents as my little brother. What would this do to him?

The band. When you're with the band, I already have to share you with everyone. I don't want to add my family to that pot, too." Then she lost the battle and started to cry. All my annoyance melted. "You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.

The more the merrier," Mom said. "We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days." "When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked. "Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap.

Cinderella's wicked stepmother, whose real name, by the way, is Gwendolyn.

But now we are two here. And soon there will be more. After so much contracting, somehow, inexplicably, my family is growing again.

Siempre me ha dicho que me quiere como a una hija, pero ahora que ha perdido a la suya es distinto.

Her father did steal into my garden one night and take something dear from me," she said. "But it was something far more precious than rampion.

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Home is loving, giving and forgiving.

voluntary work, grew fatter and spent more time at home. The house and the immediate family became central, to the detriment of public life.

Nada Barry, widow of Bob Barry, had first arrived in Sag Harbor to carry out some sociological research. One of her observations, even back then, was that the typical American porch culture, whereby a family would sit on the large veranda at the front of the house in the evenings and chat with every passer-by, had disappeared completely in Sag Harbor by the

Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

Mom perched on the edge of our sofa, her forehead etched with a line of concern I'd grown to know well. It was the same one she'd flashed at me when I pointed to the twisty slide, the same one she'd pulled out when I'd taken up Tae Kwon Do in third grade, and the same one that had frozen on her features all through driver's ed last spring. It was her SMother face.

Do you know how much a freaking baby costs? A million dollars.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're kidding me. Jillian: Unfortunately, I'm serious. Their father is fond of fruit pies and thought it would be cute. Marcus: And their mother didn't protest? Jillian: She thinks Steven's cute, so she gives him whatever he wants.

He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.