Quotes About Family

My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off (31).

You'll never live to wed his niece. You'll only die to feed his geese.

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

If I am in harmony with my family, that's success. ~ African Proverb

Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.

It was not necessary to leave to learn that. But there were other reasons to go. If a person had a child but no husband, a room but no house, a place but no home, a will but no way, and if a person was losing her son and herself, little by little, day by day, because she knew what she knew in her skin and bones but not what her sister-in-law knew in her books and pamphlets, then yes, it was necessary.

Family pulls together, mija, even though we sometimes disagree.

Jack's dad had started smoking during the war, so he'd grown up around the habit.

These last few days showed me that there's more to life than the proverbial bigger boat. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I have all I could want right here. The love of my life and the love of her family. I'm so grateful for that—what more could I ask for?

As Ginger went into the house, she chuckled. "Wouldn't be a family without some sort of drama.

Sometimes your true family is the one you create, not the one you're actually related to.

Ivy could have pointed out that their eldest sister rarely got to spend time with their parents, but Shelly knew that.

I want to have a sister lunch once a month, a least.

Thank goodness for sisters.

Forty-five might seem old to you now, but I promise you it isn't. I'm not yet half as old as my grandmother was when she passed away. I hope I still have a lot of living to do.

He is the brother-in-law of the sister-in-law of the father-in-law of my mother-in-law, and therefore is the closest relative we have; so nothing is done in our family without his advice.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. — MOTHER TERESA

Children benefit, too, in surprising ways: research has shown that when men share housework and childcare, their kids do better in school and are less likely to see a child psychiatrist or be put on behavioral medication.

girls with more involved dads develop greater self-esteem.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

What strange creatures brothers are!

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.