Quotes About Family

Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.

family, like arsenic, works best in small doses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ unless you prefer to die).

But there was something so empty about the prospect of a Christmas Day without opening presents

She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I'll be able to help my sisters get ready for the ball.

My family lives in that building now, along with Grandpa in the fourth-floor "penthouse" apartment, as he calls the converted space that was once an attic studio.

You're my favorite sister. I snorted. Gosh,I'd hate to be your unfavorite sister. I might not survive. Hey,Kate,you know I'm just teasing when I give you a hard time. Yeah,right,and the teasing just keeps me laughing.

Do it, Ester. If you must, then deceive your husband just as you deceived me—but you'll do it with a full belly and a house with children. I wish

The fire had forged them both—she and her brother—into brittle instruments. Should she bend, she would break.

My mother was so angered by love's failures, Mary, that she navigated with spite as her compass.

She said that standing between my mother and this man was like standing in the current of a river. She said it was a soft, endless . . . push, which slips you off your feet if you're not anchored to something.

Have you ever had to contemplate letting loved ones die at the hand of someone who hates them?

The contemporary belief that the family meal is a place where children learn to become members of a moral society owes much to the Dutch.

At the landing, Mommy turns to us and says, "Let's let the puppy go pish," so she opens the door and he scoots into the snow outside.

It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family's or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.

Don't you love your mother, dear? I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you. I said, She never has.

The crazy thing is, Mother, after more than twenty years of this crap, down at the bottom of my heart, where it ought to be the darkest, I think there's still this spark of love for you. It may be pity, I'm not sure, but it hurts enough to be love.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

anger harms no one more than he who harbors it. That both bitterness and true happiness are choices that we make, not conditions that fall upon us from the hands of fate. That peace is to be found in the acceptance of things that we are unable to change. That friends and family are the blood of life, and that the purpose of existence is caring, commitment.

Asshole." "Your mother never taught you words like that." "You don't know my mother," she said thickly.

I would only add this: It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family's or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.

Everyone thinks his family is strange, Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family's or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.