Quotes About Family

James Patterson

Tell us a story, Daddy," Chrissy said as I collapsed again.

Mom said. "I'm proud of you, honey. You must be doing something right. Whatever it is, just keep doing it." "Oh, I will," I told her, just before I shoved some more scrambled eggs into my big fat not-quite-lying mouth.

Ready, guys?" said Mom. "Let's make the most of this. I hear the Gunkledunks are beautiful this time of year!" Georgia stacked up her bills into one huge pile. "Can we stop at the bank first?" she

family we choose. You don't know how lucky I am that Pierce and Gaynor chose me. These two guys are awesome. The best.

Mom wouldn't be home until late, and both Georgia and Bear were asleep by nine—Georgia because she's a kid, and Bear because he's always so tired after a long day of NOT working. I'm

Mom and Bear got into a big fight that afternoon when she told him what had happened. He kept yelling about how she wasn't "hard enough" on me, and she kept telling him to back off. I just stayed in my room, wishing for it to be over. Finally, Mom said something about how she was late for work, and she slammed the door on her way out.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle!

The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.

I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.

I think we are not yet well aware that, unfortunately, we have a short time to be moms. This is not to suggest that we should rush to have children or do it in a crazy way. I think that's the most important decision of a woman's life.

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.