Quotes About Family

but Hope had learned that a meaningful life was seldom about such things. It was about experiences and relationships; it was about health and family and loving someone who loved you in return. She'd

It was a myth that every mother and daughter were best friends, but friendship was far less important than family. Friends came and went; family was always there.

father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news

He wants to be a doctor completely devoted to his patients and a man completely devoted to his family. He cannot be both, for there aren't enough hours, but he has yet to learn this.

He fell asleep almost immediately but woke an hour later. Tiptoe-ing outside again, he went to check on the daughter he loved more than life itself.

Mom says its because she has PMS. Steve almost choked but composed himself quickly. Do you even know what that means? Jonah pushed his glasses up. I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at-men syndrome.

Please, Lord, tell me what to do! "Mom?" I said later that night. "Yes?" We were sitting on the sofa in the den, the fire blazing before

That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

Sometimes dinner with these two was no better than eating with the second graders in the cafeteria.

My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me that it was my job to prove that she hadn't been lying, because that's what sons were supposed to do for their mothers.

It broke my heart -- absolutely broke it into a million pieces -- that in all the world, only these people had seen the worthiness of my dad.

Bodhi, too," she said. "He wants London to ride with us." "That's fine," I said. "I can follow." "You'll ride with us, too, dingbat. There's no reason for both of us to have to drive

It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one.

were finally able to fall back asleep. Early on, all of them had seen a counselor; the kids had drawn

For little girls, their first love should always be their dad, but that isn't always the case.

Pasara lo que pasara, se concedería otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad justa, sin importarle lo que dijeran los demás" "Quizá por eso, cuando hablo con mi madre, siempre tengo la impresión de que hay un abismo entre las dos

Your kids don't watch a lot of television.

She sometimes saw him as a baby and a toddler and on his first day of kindergarten, the images merging in her head, making Tommie perpetually familiar and yet always new and different.

She looked directly at me. "You're a great father, Russ. I know that now. If you're willing to move to Atlanta like Marge said, and you want to split time with London, I think we can probably figure something out." Which is exactly

and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

A mi modo de entender, todo hombre debería morir como ha vivido; en sus últimos momentos, debería estar rodeado y reconfortado por aquellas personas a las que siempre ha querido.

I understood then what my aunt had been trying to tell me, just as I knew my parents still loved me. I knew they wanted the best for me, now and in the future. But they wanted to see their own feelings in the photos, not mine. They wanted me to see myself in the same way they did. My parents, I knew, wanted to see disappointment.

Amanda Cardinale, Abby Koons, Emily Sweet, and Sharon Krassney also deserve my thanks. I appreciate all that you do. The Cyrus family deserves my thanks not only for welcoming me into their home, but for all they've done with the film. And a special thanks goes to

IT'S so WRONG, so profoundly wrong, for a child to die before its parents. It's hard enough to bury our parents. But that we expect. Our parents belong to our past, our children belong to our future. We do not visualize our future without them. How can I bury my son, my future, one of the next in line? He was meant to bury me!