Quotes About Family

Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.

My mother loved her children very much: me, my brothers Cor and Joop and my sister Anne.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

So I deal in straight-up fiction myself, cause I value my family and friends, and mostly cause I lie a lot anyway.

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

O segredo que não contei a meu pai foi o segredo que escondi a mim mesma. Minha mãe sabia. O único medo que ele tinha era que ela descobrisse. Assim, esse foi o dia em que nosso jogo começou.

Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?

Não vá contar para a sua mãe. Isso é segredo nosso. Se contar, ela não vai acreditar em você. Ela não vai mais amar você...E eu já sabia que isso era verdade.

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

[Mama] follows us around hoping we'll sneeze So she can have the tissue "For my scrapbook please."

right to voice one's opinions and voice one's needs directly (without fear) is assured; and healthy conflict and confrontation are encouraged as part of the family communication system.

King Zello and his daughter

The basic problem is that most Western countries have privatised the next generation. Having children tends to be regarded as a personal choice rather than a social good.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long. Or if they do, it is with a sigh… before going back to worrying about the kids, the parents, the mortgage, the boss, their friends, their weight, their health, sex and rock 'n' roll.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Veo que no has encontrado a tu tío. Qué pena. Si fueras un poco menos astuto, quizá tendrías más suerte.

Habéis perdido a vuestro tío! ¡Qué despistados!