Quotes About Family

The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.

Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

Accusing your own mother of adultery to save your skin is creativity of a kind so special it can almost be called a talent.

Party Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

My wife, Jane, made it all possible. My daughter, Claire, made it

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Your pops is a real playa

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you

Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?

It has become clear to me during my workshops that a lot of the pain people carry is not their own and may go back several generations. Most frequently it is their parents' pain they have taken on, but it might also be their grandparents' or siblings'.

Fear helps us survive. I've spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won't help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that's survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.