Quotes About Family

If there are those you love, whoever or wherever you are, hold them. Find them and hold them as tightly as you can. Resist their squirming and impatience and uncomfortable laughter, and just feel their heart throbbing against yours. Give thanks that for this moment, for this one precious moment, they are here, they are with you, and they know they are utterly, completely, entirely loved.

I have a family and two cats I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

I stayed with my wife's mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife's mother.

Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disagreement about how their mother, my grandmother, should live. My father thought a retirement home. Ágota wanted to be paid to take care f her. The argument didn't help anyone. In the end, my grandmother died anyway.

the four of us become like paper dolls-we are always together, connected.

We love you," my dad says, and mother nods. My mother my shows her love in every way possible but has a hard time saying the word. My dad and I have had many conversations about why this might be; we think it's because she's lost so many people she's said the word "love" to. Half her family is dead.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I'm always on the court with my dad.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

When they did "Best Sandwich" it turned the room friendly from strange and they could breathe each other's breath in and out and in and out till they heard at last their mother's key in the big front door.

The sound of Kiser's departing car had hardly died away before Romey with a stony glint in the depths of his eyes asked, "Mary Call, how long is temporary?" I said, "Romey, there is the dictionary over there. It's smarter than I am. Ask it.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers." Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings . Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately. But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family. Even when they hate each other. And that tends to put all things in perspective.

the Empress said, her own breath coming in gasps, lips against her daughter's cold forehead and soft hair—her hair at least was still the same, soft, delicate, sweet cobwebs. . . .

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

In the end, what matters most in life are the depth of your relationships with friends and family; and the sheer number of people you've helped along the way. These represent true measures of wealth. Financial wealth, then, is seen as a resource for fostering your relationships.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

My father wore the pants in the family–at least, after the court order.