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Quotes About Family

But for one final night, he's the father I remember best
~ Holly Black
Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us,' Vivi said, 'than to be mad at the people who deserve it.
~ Holly Black
I look down at my sisters, hurrying through the snow. My sisters, who despite everything, came for me.
~ Holly Black
That's what my sister Taryn always says. She tells me that I remind her of her late husband.
~ Holly Black
Human girls cry when they're sad and laugh when they're happy. They have a single fixed shape rather than shifting with their whims like windblown smoke. They have their own parents, whom they love. They don't go around stealing other girls' mothers. At least that's what Kaye thought human girls were like. She wouldn't really know. After all, she wasn't human.
~ Holly Black
Taryn is beautiful in her heavily embroidered dress, and Vivi radiant in soft violet grey with artfully sewn moths seeming to fly from her shoulder across her chest to gather in another group on one side of her waist. I realise how rarely I've seen her in truly splendid clothes. Her hair is up, and my earrings glitter in her lightly furred ears. Her cat eyes gleam in the half light, twin to Madoc's. For once, that makes me smile.
~ Holly Black
To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes.
~ Holly Black
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back.
~ Holly Black
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder,' Locke calls after me. 'We would be surprised to find that,' I call back.
~ Holly Black
Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.
~ Holly Black
do you know that the first time I ever held you, I looked into your eyes and lost my heart? The same way I'm sure every father does when he holds his child for the first time. I knew then and there-right there on that very spot-that you were meant to be my little girl...
~ Unknown
Any family can fall apart, Annie. It's those that manage to stay together after surviving what life throws at them that deserve a little extra respect.
~ Unknown
Your dad used to say that our problems disappear when we laugh and I think he was right. They do, even if only for those few minutes while we are laughing.
~ Unknown
I've always wanted to be a mom.
~ Holly Madison
I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.
~ Holly Madison
I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.
~ Unknown
Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.
~ Unknown
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread conflict.
~ Homer
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
~ Homer
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
~ Homer Simpson
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
~ Unknown
A widow has two tasks before her, whose duties clash: she is a mother, and yet she must exercise parental authority.
~ Unknown
Our most cruel enemies are our nearest in blood!... Kings have neither brothers, nor sons, nor mothers.
~ Unknown
Like many widows, she came to the unwise decision of remarrying.
~ Unknown