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Quotes About Family

Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.
~ Ned Vizzini
The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm going to go home and freak out. I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. I'm going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
~ Ned Vizzini
Now Mom is crying, and I learn something I didn't know about the human body: if your mom cries, you cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
My mum,' Thomas Kintry told him, 'when she gets really down, she churns over the past. All the things she thinks she did wrong, all the people she let down. There was this one Christmas when the turkey came out too dry; she still goes on about that bloody turkey, what a miserable Christmas day it was. And this is, like—1993 or something. But she still goes on about it. My nan was the same.
~ Neil Cross
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When I imagine what I'm capable of achieving, I don't reference the professions of ancestors reported to me in a genealogy kit. Instead, I look to all humans who have ever lived. We are one family. We are one race. The human race. Although I rather think we're all just next of kin.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
THE LAND OF DREAMS Sleep, sleep, It will carry you Into the land of wonderful dreams. The future is waiting for you there— Your future, And your family. Yuma
~ Neil Philip
I'm getting chest pains...You give me chest pains Uncle Willie. It's my fault you get excited. Yes, it's your fault! I only get chest pains on Wednesdays. So come on Tuesdays.
~ Neil Simon
A lot of times, people in a family think it's just one person who causes all the trouble," Lorraine, the therapist who lectured us on trauma, is telling the assembly. "But a family is a system, and a sick person is the product of a sick system.
~ Neil Strauss
So how do you feel about it?" "I'm not upset, but my mom was crying and it's the first time I've ever seen her cry. Dad always wanted whiskey poured on his grave, so my brother said, 'I just hope he doesn't mind me filtering it through my bladder first.'" Mystery
~ Neil Strauss
My dad, who was seventy-four, was now ill with myeloma and cancer in his bloodstream. My mom, who was much younger, spent every day and night taking care of him. I wanted somebody in my life to do that for me, and I wanted somebody I could do that for.
~ Neil Strauss
They forget how much they used to love their own parents," she said, "when they were kids.
~ Nell Freudenberger
But it wasn't the intermittent reception or even the whispering that exasperated Amina so much as a familiar trick of her mother's: to bring up a subject in such a roundabout way that Amina had to pry it out of her, as if she were the one who'd wanted to discuss it in the first place.
~ Nell Freudenberger
They know you and George are coming to get us," her mother said. George doesn't want you to come and live with us. "They think we're rich." I can't get pregnant.
~ Nell Freudenberger
If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth?
~ Nell Freudenberger
And hardly had she left her bed and become able to walk again without pain, hardly had the children returned from the houses of the neighbors, when she began to have her fifth child.
~ Nella Larsen
Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.
~ Nelson DeMille
No, I didn't go to our language schools. My grandmother taught me Russian." "Evelina Vasileva Putyatova?" "So, you were paying attention. Odd for a man." "I'm a spy. I listen." "And look and file things away. Anyway, my grandmother was a wonderful woman.
~ Nelson DeMille
My sister, Lynne, has relocated with her A-hole husband to the West Coast—wherever that is.
~ Nelson DeMille
I recall very well a time when things were better at home. So, I must answer the age-old question: Do I move or make home improvements ?
~ Nelson DeMille
Eu sou o cínico da família. E os cínicos enxergam o óbvio.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
one's need an educated and understandable family to achieve one's goal
~ Nepoleon Hill
He met the femme de chambre upon the landing. 'I have made up my mind,' he said heavily. 'La petite Rose may come with us to England; I will take her to her father. She must be ready to start to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock.
~ Nevil Shute