Quotes About Family

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

Stepping away from her husband, Marianna brushed Lauren's then Evan's cheek with kisses. "I'm going to put your father to bed before he gives everyone a raise.""I've got a raise for you all right."Marianna gasped "Joseph" at the same time Lauren squeaked "Dad", much to Joseph's amusement. With a shake of her head, her mother grabbed her father by the hand and led him away like a wayward little boy.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

All's fair in love and family Christmases.

home from school!

Revolution!" cried Grandmother. "What does that have to do with anything? People still have to live, to marry, and to bear children! Your father thinks things will change. Perhaps they will. But men will always be men, and women will always be women. Some things never change!

Respect!'' cried Mother's voice. ''Children owe respect to their parents! We don't have to earn it!

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

The melamed asked one of his young students, "Yussele, do you say your prayers before each meal?" "No, melamed." "What? You don't pray before each meal?!" "I don't have to. My mother's a good cook.

I wouldn't say 'Hello' to a paskudnyak like that!" "Did you ever hear of such a paskudnyak?" "That whole family is a collection of paskudnyaks." This word is one of the most greasily graphic, I think, in Yiddish. It offers the connoisseur three nice, long syllables, starting with a sibilant of reprehension and ending with a nasality of scorn. It adds cadence to contempt.

Long, long before Freud, the Jews had this saying: "When a son gets married, he divorces his mother.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everything depends on upbringing.