Quotes About Family

Hand in hand the children began to run homeward through the soft warm drizzle.

Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.

Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe. - Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle. - Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma. - That's only good manners, ah shrugs.

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

Statistically speaking, he reflects, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else.

Buckin' is one ay Na Na's favourite words likesay, along wi 'pish'. Naebody says 'pish' like Na Na. She sortay drags oot the sssshhh, it's likesay, ye kin see the steam rising oaf the yellay jet as it hits the white porcelain, ken?

Ah'd rather see ma sister in a brothel than ma brother in a Hearts scarf n that's fuckin true...

There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like.

After Billy was born, they had moved to the top floor of an old

He estado allí. ¡Es una ratonera hedionda! Supongo que puede usted llamarla república, pero siempre hay alguien de la familia Argo que consigue salir elegido Comodoro. Y si da la casualidad de que no te gusta... te ocurren cosas .

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

Though only a robot, he had known the continuity and stability of family life; he had known warmth; he had known love.

The dead don't go anywhere. They're all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.

Children don t read to find their identity to free themselves from guilt to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don t expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish illusions.

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.

The lack of a father leaves a hole in a woman's heart, Lucia. A girl needs to feel she is protected; she needs masculine energy to develop trust in men and later to be able to give herself in love.

Patria es donde están nuestros muertos

Muereté, mi amor, suplico Ernesto de rodillas junto a la cama. Muereté hija, agregue yo en silencio, porque no me salio la voz...

No hay feminismo sin independencia económica. Eso lo vi claramente en mi infancia con la situación de mi madre. Las mujeres necesitamos disponer de ingresos propios y manejarlos, para eso se requiere educación, capacitación y un ambiente laboral y familiar adecuado.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten. Se acostumbran desde temprano a considerar al compañero como un hijo bobalicón, a quien perdonan graves defectos, desde ebriedad hasta violencia doméstica, porque es hombre.

In all social classes except the most privileged, abnegation and hard work are considered the supreme female virtues; a spirit of sacrifice is a question of honor: the more one suffers for family, the prouder one feels. Women are used to thinking of their mate as a foolish child whose every serious fault, from drunkenness to domestic violence, they forgive . . . because he's a man.

Todo esto es tuyo, abuelo? - Todo, desde la carretera panamericana hasta la punta de esos cerros. ¿Los ves? - ¿Por qué, abuelo? - ¡Cómo que por qué! ¡Porque soy el dueño, claro! - Sí, ¿pero por qué eres el dueño? - Porque era de mi familia. - ¿Por qué? - Porque se la compararon a los indios. - Y los inquilinos, los que también han vivido aquí siempre, ¿por qué no son ellos los dueños?

Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.