Quotes About Family

This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

Viki skipped briskly through the morning chill, easily keeping up with the slower, longer strides of her big brother.

White Owl turned to smile at her, and her heart began to beat wildly in her breast. For the rest of her life, she knew she would ride at his side across the vast western lands; their home would be wherever they spread their soft furs . . . and she would continue to pray that their people would all learn to live together in harmony someday. She thought of the beautiful child sleeping on her back. He was a combination of

The only thing I knew to do with a man was what I'd learned from my parents: to fight or not fight. I had no idea how to craft a partnership beyond that one basic thing.

quinceañera. Case closed." Carmen and Jamie exchanged

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course.

The world he loved was not just disappearing; it was already gone. The British Empire would shrink away from its borders. Williams had lost the Burmese members of his family, and the elephants were next. The effect of the separation would be momentous. The bond he had forged with the animals was something so large and deep he could frame it only in spiritual terms, saying they were his "religion.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

When a man becomes a believer in Christ, he becomes part of the family of God. We're more than friends; we're brothers.

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

Our mom, Rhea, was not happy about her husband's baby-eating habit, but she didn't know how to stop him. Finally, by the time my little brother Zeus was born, she came up with a plan. (Really, mom? Nothing occured to you until the sixth child?)

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.