Quotes About Family

Cumpliste con uno de los requisitos de ser padre: brindar instantes.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called 'The Invader,' and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience.

so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,

Mercedes stepped back to her brother's side, the baby in her arms while Vidal stared at the watch's shattered face, its hands counting away his last moments as meticulously, as it had counted away all the years since his father's death.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

AN oracle had informed King Acrisius of Argos that his grandson would deprive him of his throne and his life. Because of this he had his daughter Danae and Perseus, her child by Zeus, shut in a chest and cast into the sea.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

The first generation of immigrants commit themselves to a lifetime of labor, not assimilation—that's the job of the children.

Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.

Quelques secondes plus tard, son père entendit le bruit d'une porte qui se refermait, mais ce n'était pas un claquement de colère : c'était plutôt la séparation que l'on met volontairement, et sans heurt, entre soi-même et ceux que l'on ne parvient plus à comprendre.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

If his mother had lived it might have been different, but the farm in Asoli where Garin of Lower Corte had taken his three sons had been a dour, womanless place—acceptable perhaps for the twins, who had each other, and for the kind of man Garin had slowly become amid the almost featureless spaces of the flatlands, but no source of nurture or warm memories for a small, quick, imaginative youngest child, whose own gifts, whatever they might turn out to be, were not those of the land.

Lin Kuo himself would have said that his legacy was his daughter. Or no. He'd have believed that, but never voiced the thought, for fear of putting a burden of such weight upon her shoulders, which would be an improper thing to do to anyone, let alone a child so dearly loved from the beginning of her days to the end of his.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.