Quotes About Family

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

My brother- "Fuck your brother." I squeezed the trigger.

A few seconds later, her reply came in. WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change. Me: Nana, do U know what WTF means?? Her: Of course silly, it means "well, that's fantastic.

The definition of marriage? When a woman adopts an overgrown man-child who cannot be handled by his parents any longer.

I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently. I'd tell my sister no. I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad. I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words. Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time. I'd tell them I love them. I wish... Yeah, I wish.

Sister?" Jessie Kay scowled. "Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

I'm going to my room," Jessie Kay called. "Y'all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.

This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow.

The closer we came to the warehouse, the more she talked about her brother. On and on she went. "He will kill you," she threatened. "Kyrin has killed more humans than any of our kind," she boasted. By the time we reached Dallas, I longed to cut off my ears and give them to anyone who would take them, just so I wouldn't have to hear another word about her brother.

I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.

Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?

Vocation is far more than work-life integration, bridging the chasm between personal and professional; it is the integration of heaven and earth, God's work and our work, family and faith, daily life and divine power, culture and the Christian life. Vocation reveals the spirituality of everyday life.

God is not impressed with grandiose accomplishments from someone who ignores his God-given calling to his wife and children.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

It was silly of me to expect [my father] to change or to understand what he had done. So I decided I wasn't obliged to be angry anymore, and I feel very good that we were able to spend time together during the five years before he died.

A fellow NCO in the Marines once told me that his priorities were the following: provider, parent, spouse, and change agent. In that order.

A quote about Carla Kelly - We used to have a family saying around the dinner table. For expediency in feeding our large number of children we would sometimes forego the use of a serving dish and just put one pot or another on the table. The expression was, "It's okay - Carla Kelly isn't here today." Dinner at the Kellys, and Carla's insistence on proper dining decorum was always a bright spot in our occasional family visits. - Gene McAvoy 7-22-10

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.