Quotes About Family

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

Children were experiments, and his had failed.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.

What has mattered, always, is that they're together, and everything else falls away.

People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.

I'm so angry,' she said. 'I was all right until you came back. I'd given up. So many terrible things. Relatives, neighbors disappearing. Opa. The bloody Germans coming to...to strip us bare. Oma's silence. Bam, bam, bam. Like being punched over and over again. You get numb. It doesn't hurt anymore. Unless you start to hope. That's the trick, you see: you can take anything unless you start to hope.

If you weren't here and Oma died, I'd deal with it. Because there'd be nothing more to lose. It'd be just me. But now it's different; it's worse. Because you're yet another person to lose. You do stupid, dangerous things, and every time you go away, I pray in agony that you'll come back. It's unfair. Hope is pulling me to pieces. I can't stand it.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? ¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!

Maman chérie dont je n'imagine pas, dans mon paradis enfantin, qu'on puisse un jour me séparer.

Every family has its own unique song. Notice what yours is, and sing it loudly and proudly.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

My dad was Callum McGregor. Hanged for political terrorism. Hanged for being a rapist and a murderer. Hanged for being a son of a bitch.

You bring me bliss, my rainbow child.

with disgust. 'You know what mothers are like,' Nosh shrugged. 'Yeah, but your mum doesn't go round showing you up,' I pointed out.

I called her Minnie all the time. She loved our house as much as I hated it.

Because we were friends. We were family. We had each other. And, more important than all that, we had love.

Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. …. With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.