Quotes About Family

If the world around us is chaotic and sometimes incomprehensible, then the family is an oasis, an anchor of reliability and loyalty, a place where we are important because we are there.

The busier we are, the more important it is that we make sure there is special family time. It is not enough to think family time is important; it must be important. What we do is the visible expression of our real values.

I love my baby mamas, they my highest honors.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.

Hi. I'm Dru Anderson. My father went way-out wack after my mom died and now he travels around hunting things that go bump in the night, killing things you can only find in fairytales and ghost stories. I help him out when I can, but most of the time I'm deadweight, even though I can tell you where anything inhuman in this town is likely to hang out. I'm skipping school because I won't be here in another three months. None of it goddamn well matters.

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

The meaning of life is the smile of a mother.

I love every second of being a mom.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can't tell her. That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can't tell her that I'm okay.

When you die, she thought now, you can no longer give love. You can't give love anymore. She wouldn't be able to love her children. It struck her suddenly as the very worst thing about death, worse than not being able to breathe or laugh or kiss. A kind of existential suffocation, to not be able to give her children her love anymore.

When my mother died, I sort of felt her inside me sometimes,' I say. 'Like I'd swallowed her.' He laughs. 'Swallowed her.' 'I still have moments when I feel that, when it feels like she's inside me, and there's no difference between us or that the difference doesn't matter.

That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can't tell her that I'm okay.

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. I'm thirty-one now, and my mother is dead. (4)

I hate old people. I hate anyone older than my mother, who didn't get to become old.

My parents were married twenty-three years and never made it look appealing.

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. I'm thirty-one now, and my mother is dead.

And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.