Quotes About Family

The circumference of love depends on the angle you see it from, I learned in the course of that madcap week after Father proposed to Rose.

Gram is . . . is herself again, I'll have

It is never good news when a parent resorts to your full name.

I didn't know why it made my heart sing loud to itself that a stranger thought I was a boy. It just did. Made me feel like he could look inside me and see some part of the truth of me in there. But it did make me inexplicably sad that a stranger could see me, and my own family could not.

I rarely bring a date along to family functions, because more than two or three of us in one room can be hazardous, especially if you are shy, offend easily, clean and sober, or don't eat meat. The way my family demonstrates our love and affection for each other has occasionally been mistaken for verbal abuse by outsiders, so I usually don't take the risk.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

Your ancestral homeland is Queens, fuckface.

No daycare center can duplicate a mother.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We! … We the human Family. God said so! FAMILY!

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

My mother had nine more children for the Master of the Land, but they was all sold when they got to be bout three years old by the Mistress of the Land cause they was too white and lookin like the Master of the Land. That, and the money.

Always gave birth to his children, it was for business reasons, not for love, so he didn't count them to be much to him. They was for work, or sale.

your daughter went missing. She

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" Don't talk to your mother like that.