Quotes About Family

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life.

Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.

She said she hated my children—her own children, Looloo-dirl, her own children!

They never asked any reasons for their parents' fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotisms

There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What could little boys do, too, about differences between their hearthstones, Mother and Father?

You will never break up my home. I know that's been your object for years and the aim of all your secret maneuvers. I love my children as no man ever loved his before. I know men love their children, but mine are bound up in me, part of me

I'll find a way. There must be a way. And I'll take my children from you. The man who loves children! You can have your own. That's all you really care about

The man with a peaceful nest to fly home to, has everything; there is no effort he will not make for his mate and offspring.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.

she would say to the children as they crowded about her bent shoulders, peering at her satin stitch or Madeira work, "my kids too: I'm not proud; well, I don't care what happens to you kids, I've done my best and if that's not satisfactory, you must try another shop.

she said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up ignoramus of a father, her girls were not going to be underfed "mud rats.

I know," he said with sudden bitterness, "because your mother's game is working after all. She is turning you against me." "No," said Louie. He looked at her pityingly, "No, I know you don't know it, Looloo.

I say, frankly, Looloo, that I believed that I could remold her life and with my wife and children make a little nucleus of splendid men and women to work for the future. That was, is, my only dream, my life hope: for I am only a dreamer in realities. I want you to understand me, Looloo: she did not even try to.

Some children of borderlines secretly wish that their mother would die, not because they hate her, but because living with her seems impossible.

When enraged, some divorced borderlines may deprive their children of contact with their father either to punish him or the children.

The Queen's children must allow her the right to self-destruct while exerting their right to protect themselves.

Borderlines may destroy what is good and loved by their children because they are intensely jealous of the loved object.

It is rare for even adult children to abandon their mother, regardless of how many times their mother has abandoned them.

Laura explained that her mother "went on tirades." Something could set her off and she would whirl around the house like a cyclone. The warning signal was "the look." The look was a piercing, threatening glare that meant "I could kill you." When Laura was a child, her mother actually said it, with no awareness of the power of her words.

Therapists sometimes warn family members not to depend on the person with BPD to validate their self-worth, yet young children have no choice. They can and will do anything to hold onto the good mother (the loving, caring person) who unpredictably turns into the Witch mother (the terrifying, raging beast).

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.