Quotes About Family

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Family members must forgive one another.

They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute.

Tess's Uncle Donald winced when he entered the Kibbitz Room at Attman's Delicatessen. The pained expression

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child." Sunny

Ghost Story (1981) The Getaway (1972) The Godfather (1972)

what our father called a chifforobe

They could not love Rosalind as much as they loved Olivia because they knew she could be taken from them.

They didn't fuck me up, my mom and dad. On that score, I'm a self-made woman.

Vaccaro's was

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

No!" She pries the frozen square of manure from the dog's teeth and flings it away. Then she unzips her jacket and sighs one of those frustrated sighs that is supposed to help get patience back and which he hears from his wife all the time now. "Remember, Dad,

Bisabuelo arriero, abuelo hacendado, hijo rentista y nieto pordiosero»

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

And though Finn was tall, his arms and legs ropey with farm muscle, the Rudes were wider and stronger, and there were about four and a half too many of them.

Don't mind her," Mel explained. "She's just worried about Finn." Petey tossed her wild hair. "Who says I'm worried?" Mel pressed a palm to her forehead. "Anyone want to adopt a couple of teenagers?" "They're all yours, Sweet Melissa," a man said." "Groovy," said Mel.

And when your brother cries for her, I will feed on his tears.

What?" Finn remembered sitting at the kitchen table with Sean, both of them trying to say the world "table" in Polish. Roza had said, "You have tongue like cow!" and laughed and laughed. "What?" Sean said again. He had tongue like cow, he had mind like cow. Dull, wordless.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.