Quotes About Family

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.