Quotes About Family

binding yourself to another person and to the children you make together, that's life.

Everyone thinks they do, until they take a child into their heart. Only then do you know what it is to be a hostage to love. To have someone else's life matter more than your own.

You really are the stupidest smart kid in the world," said Mother.

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

And why shouldn't a grown man live with his mother? Mothers were a rare and precious commodity and if you had one, why in the world would leave her?

Theresa dismissively. "It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid." "What makes me saddest," said John Paul, "is that Locke is getting credit for caring about Ender more than anybody. So when his identity does come out, it'll look as though he loyally stepped in to protect his brother.

Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.

raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.

You're Greek and I'm Armenian. Of course we need to raise our children to speak Portuguese.

This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.

She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. "Ah, Miro, I'm glad he wasn't your father. Because then I'd be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.