Quotes About Family

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have — if only for self-defense.

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Sarek: Do you have a message for your mother? Spock: Yes. Tell her I feel fine. Spock: Live long and prosper, Father. Sarek: Live long and prosper, my son.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

The world is changing," Irene said quietly. "We're working to make that chang ehappen - so perhaps someday you can trust a Fae. I'm aware of what's at stake, but if we succeed, then we're going to have to change as well. If you want to actually create peace, then we have to trust each other. No magical bindings, no blackmail, no family authority, just each other's given word. I'm not saying that we have to trust blindly. But automatic mistrust is a luxury we can no longer afford.

Genetics were not important. Affection and protection were the truly important things.

This is the right thing to do, I tell myself. But I don't believe it. This is another one of my mother's crazy ideas. I feel sick to my stomach. I want to pull my hand away, but I don't. I keep walking. Good Moose. Obedient Moose. I always do what I'm supposed to do.

We've been three people and an octopus all of my life, and now the octopus is gone.

I feel like marching into my parents' room and shaking my mom. How could you send her to that place without her blanket?

They darn socks too?" "Yes, as a matter of fact. Do a better job than your mom too. Though don't you dare tell her I said that." "Murderers outsew my mother?" "Apparently so." My dad laughs.

I AM SIXTEEN," Nat says, like maybe I've lost my hearing. "I can go in by myself. I am the warden's daughter.

WELKUM HOM NADALEE

I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

My dad's an electrician, for Pete's sake.

Now I'm five foot eleven and a half inches—as tall as my mom and a good two inches taller than my dad. My father tells people I've grown so much, he's going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under the name Incredible Growth Formula.

J.C.'s friends sometimes wondered why her father was making all that noise. J.C. told them not to worry. That was just her father at work.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

Yo... no quiero ser ningún otro. No quiero ser diferente. Quiero ser Clark Kent. Quiero ser tu hijo.

Don't worry—my phone is password-protected Ed. Note: Dad's password=7734