Quotes About Family

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me.

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me. . . . Marial put his arm around Salva's shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking, for he said, "It doesn't matter. Don't you know that if we keep walking east, we'll go all the way around the world and come right back here to Sudan? That's when we'll find our families!

Ages ago my gran knitted a sweater for my dad. He wore it and wore it and wore it right out. Then my other gran, who lives with us, unraveled it

Nya could see the questions in her mother's face every morning: Would they be lucky again? Or was it now their turn to lose someone?

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

Women, and children, are to be cherished and respected, not terrorized.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

These three little kittens opened their eyes when they grew old enough, and thought there was nothing so nice in all this wonderful world as their own dear mother, although she told them of a great many nice things, like milk and bread, which they should have when they could go up to the big house where she had her breakfast, dinner, and supper.

physically. The biggest worry for an abused woman is her small children.

Only make one meal for your kids. They won't starve to death if they don't eat it. In fact, if they are hungry every night because they refuse dinner, perhaps they'll learn to eat more. "I call it the Starbucks Phenomenon: The expectation that it's okay for each person in the family to order something different in the home," Dr. Fishel says. "That's just another burden on who is doing the cooking and could be another impediment.

There was one good side to my male relations. Since they were married to my sisters, they had all learned to be swiftly subdued by sarcasm.

Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail.

My dad is my hero, and the only Black person I knew that wasn't a nigger.

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into ... people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

I guess there must be some good foster parents, but I never saw any. All mine ever wanted was to collect their checks and treat me like I was a piece of shit unless my case worker was coming by for a visit. Then I got moved up from the mattress in the basement to one of their kids' rooms.

Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too.