Quotes About Family

It's hard thinking about where they are taking us. While you're on the way there you think less of what lies ahead, but your heart is heavy when you start to think about how far you are from your family and if and when you might see them again. I haven't seen my sister once in five months.

I now have to choose between son and husband. But I have made my decision and I have to be strong. I must leave my boy and share my life – or my death – with my husband.17

It was clear to anyone who encountered the tsar and his daughters in the Alexander Park how much pride he had in his girls. 'He was happy that people admired them. It was as though his kind blue eyes were saying to them: "Look what wonderful daughters I have.

Paul and Olga enjoyed a gilded exile with their two daughters, in a home created together that was "worthy of a Pompadour or a Du Barry.

It was another six years, however – and only after considerable and protracted legal wrangling – before the Russian Prosecutor General's office finally saw fit to rehabilitate Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanova, their parents and brother, as 'victims of political repressions'.

together, and in Russia. Ekaterinburg was their Calvary.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

in the US and the UK we'd fought for more money at work, Scandinavians had fought for more time – for family leave, leisure and a decent work-life balance.

Once I'm discharged, we're offered the opportunity to stay an extra week at the adjacent 'Stork Hotel' as a family. This is for new parents who want to ease the transition from 'shit, we have a baby!' to 'shit, we're taking a baby home!' Here, nurses are on hand night and day for advice on how on earth to take care of the squalling pink thing that has somehow sprung from your loins.

For me, it's the simple life – spending more time in nature and with family. If you work too hard, you get stressed, then you get sick, and then you can't work at all.

wondering how on earth hospital staff have seen fit to allow us custody of an actual human being. (Me: 'I can't even keep our houseplants alive!' Lego Man: 'We have houseplants?')

After two weeks of paternity leave post-birth, (my husband) goes back to work before tying up loose ends to take ten weeks off to care for his baby. He has a big shiny job at one of the country's most profitable companies, but a dad taking time out, fully paid, to look after his child is recognised as something that's important and so is encouraged.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

we have equal legal rights to spend real time with our families, where there really is equal pay, where the pressures of the long-hours culture are removed, where pay in the caring professions was made so rewarding that it did not invariably fall to women to look after the elderly, the disabled or children in nurseries, nor that teaching in primary schools was a female role.

I hear my mother's voice echo you're all the sunlight that's ever been in my life.

Their breakfast and dinner conversations aren't calculated to shield their children from the modern world. They just don't let the modern world rob childhood of its birthright

Vita had the same crooked smile I had, and that many of the women in my family had, what we called our Mona Lisa smile, a hesitant smirk that didn't give much away. You didn't get the full-on smile until we knew you better, and then we would bend over backward for you, cook you elaborate meals, and do anything you asked. Well, almost anything. Vita

I needed a wife, goddamnit, someone to take care of me while I took care of business. But I was the wife. And mother. So

Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al fin y al cabo, eres mi madre. Pero es imposible que sienta amor. No puedo amarte, madre

He even pursued the story of a four-year-old girl who bragged that her father, a Jewish merchant of herculean physical stature, had thrown Winter to the ground, killed him, and cut and carved him up; the family, the girl said, then sat around the dinner table and ate him.57

Family is worth clinging to wherever one can find it.

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My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.