Quotes About Family

Who can you turn to when good things happen? When you find a wonderful partner. When you get a great job offer or promotion. When your child does well. Who would be glad to hear it?

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

A wedding is a mash-up between loved ones and strangers, who politely spend the hours attempting to sort out complex familial alignments while slowly getting plastered.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

Assuming they're really Albert's sons, they're the present earl's first

Without missing a beat I continue to play our black Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano and say, "Not now! Mommy and Daddy are working!" The girls get the message and withdraw.

Every night instead of watching television, Sandburg would read to his family." "I sure hope Mom doesn't start that," Michael muttered.

Can we take these outside under the trees and look at them?" Michele asked. "And let the little ones read in here?" she added in a motherly tone. She could hear Brian groan under his breath at her play-acting. But it worked, she thought, biting her tongue so she wouldn't get tickled.

They all fell onto the sand, then huddled up beneath the long wings of the hang glider. "Think we could borrow this thing for a little while?" Christina asked. "Think we could all go to jail with your Papa for stealing airplanes?" Alex retorted.

Be very careful what you say. Daddy's being very strange about pussies at the moment.' Orla

A crying baby is the best form of birth control.

But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.

You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us." "I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren." "Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.

But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy.

If your loved ones only get your attention when they are in crisis, pretty soon you've got a lot of crises on your hands, especially with kids.

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to her. That emotion was absent in "Free Land," relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the Post 's, ideology.

Houses are real, deep, emotional things.

Such magic there is in Christmas to draw the absent ones home and if unable to go in the body the thoughts will hover there.

Later in life, children are often reluctant for a host of reasons to assume responsibility over their parents, a reversal of roles that symbolizes mortality.

The Wilders, of course, paid no attention to her exuberance, continuing to live a frugal existence among their pigs and hens, entertained by a self-re-newing circle of farm cats and their preternaturally gifted Airedale terrier, Nero, who would sit politely at the dinner table like a member of the family, eating off his own plate.

She realized that all her life the teachings of those early days have influenced me and the example set by father and mother has been something I have tried to follow, which failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star, -Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'As A Farm Woman Thinks.' Missouri Ruralist, August 1, 1923; Farm Journalist, p. 290.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

I knew now that we were never going to be a proper family again.