Quotes About Family

Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant...everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.

Doesn't surprise me, Nana snorted. I wouldn't put anything past your late husband. He's not dead, Nana. Nana sighed. Hope springs eternal.

He still didn't think I was good enough for you. No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.

Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

Nana glanced at Ben. I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But there's another kind of love, Amanda. One that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. One that makes you feel that anything is possible. I want you to know that you could have that. I want you to hold out for it.

He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq. She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm? Uh-huh. Ben nodded. That's what he said. Are you sure? Of course I'm sure. Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

Hey, Dad? Yeah? Jonah walked in silence for a few steps. It's okay if you like Miss Andrews. Miles looked down in surprise. It is? Yeah, he said seriously. Because I think she likes you.

Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness.

Not everything, he said. Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This - he said motioning - is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

provided a road map for how a real man was supposed to lead his life. Get married. Love your wife and treat her with respect. Have children, and teach them the value of hard work. Do your job. Don't complain. Remember that family—unlike most of those people you might meet in life—will always be around. Fix what can be fixed or get rid of it. Be a good neighbor. Love your grandchildren. Do the right thing. Good

I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year. - Nana