Quotes About Family

Blessed is the man is designed to train young men to fulfill their roles as future leaders in their family, church and community life, with an emphasis on growth in Christian character and the development of godly priorities.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.Grandfather: What is it,

Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.