Quotes About Family

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I love being with my family, feeling that I'm both protector and protected.

If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.

No somos lo que deseamos ser,Somos lo que la sociedad exige.Somos lo que nuestros padres eligieron.No queremos decepcionar a nadie,sentimos una gran necesidad de ser amados.Por eso reprimimos lo mejor de nosotros mismos.Poco a poco,lo que era la luz de nuestros sueños se convierte en el monstruo de nuestras pesadillas.Son los deseos no realizados,las posibilidades no vividas.

Nothing in the world was more important than my daughter's happiness, even though I'd never understood why she always had to choose the most difficult and painful of paths. But a mother doesn't have to understand anything, she simply has to love and protect. And feel proud. Knowing that we could give her almost everything, she nevertheless set off early in search of her independence. She'd had her stumbles and her failures, but she insisted on facing any storms alone.

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

Ton père et le sien, en amis fraternels, jurèrent de s'unir par leurs enfants. Ton fiancé avait alors six ans. Tu naquis dans le cercle de cette année-là. Telle était ta destinée. Tu fus élevée dans ce dessein.

We weren't looking for perfection. We were looking for the possibility of perfection, and that possibility is always most beautifully present in the faces of our children and then, if we are very lucky, in the faces of our grandchildren.

If you have to take a stand, home's the best place to do it," he said, and his voice was as soothing as the music.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;

There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal

Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you.

Families are only a means of exploitation,' he declared. 'Parents treat children as capital assests and children wait for parents to die so that they will have an unearned income.' 'So children spy on fathers,' Mercy put in, 'and sons are sent far from their parents--' 'That the young may not inherit the prejudices of the old.

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.