Quotes About Family

She'd taken on the burden of supporting the family only to find herself tending to his fragile ego as well. She loved Art too much to point that out. She just wished he'd get a fucking job.

Most painful of all, she mourned the time she could have spent with her daughter. She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.

My father is Lester Liu. - Oona

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it.

What do you think of Frankie, Norah?" she asked. "I think he's the greatest thing since canned peas." Flo roared with laughter. "Sorry, Janet," she choked, seeing her sister's hurt face. "But when you try to use expressions like that you sound so—

Aunt Florence told me never to mention that shrub word again," said Gavin solemnly, as he joined Norah on the verandah. "She says when we get back to the city she'll check with the university and then she'll know she's right—but she wants the arguing to stop.

They—they married each other. They are too close to all being brothers and sisters now. Their children are not always strong.

East of Eden,

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

It's how fucked-up families communicate. Instead of talking to each other directly, everything goes through a third party. If one person controls all the information, they can lie or pit people against each other.

Sometimes the very loved ones who seem to be causing all our problems are just calling attention to deeper issues the rest of the family would rather ignore.

Miss Kay When Phil walked into our apartment that night, the boys were so happy. The first thing they wanted to know was whether he'd brought back the big TV. All Phil could say was, "I didn't know I was supposed to do that." He looked around the sparse room where we had been living and said, "You should have gotten more stuff." It never was about stuff to me. The last thing we needed during that time was more stuff.

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

On TV they keep their kids. Love them.

Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

I've always wanted to be a dad.

Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on.

This dying & grief stuff knows no boundaries. It doesn't matter if the pain of loss is for a baby, an elderly parent, someone who drops dead at 30, the sorrow & grief doesn't change because of age.

I've often found myself in circumstances that were too big for me. But I've never faced anything in life that was too big for my family.