Quotes About Family

Marriage and family are important to God, but just as important to him are the individuals within those marriages and families.

Maybe you think that God is more interested in preserving your marriage than the well-being of you and your children, but that is not true.

I'm so excited for my son. On Christmas morning I want to see his face, to be there when he opens the gifts. I want the see what my assistants got him for Christmas.

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.

It turns out you can go home again, if you have to.

Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.

That was the truth. And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.

You know her parents are lawyers? Entertainment lawyers. Fantastically rich, huge house in Brentwood, working all the time, no discernible emotional life whatsoever.

Awesome axes," Josh said. "Where did you—" "Your mom gave them to me," Janet said. "After I fucked her." "Why—" "Because she enjoyed it so much." Not

Your mother bled when I-" "Shh!"[..] "-when I popped her cherry", Janet finished in a whisper. "That doesn't make sense!" John hissed.

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals.

And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired.

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You

Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'