Quotes About Family

Alzheimer's was far more terrifying than death.

Cooper shook his head. "The things we do for our children." Natalie managed a thin, tight smile. "When do you have to go?" "Soon. I want to see the kids first." "Do you want to… you could stay. The night.

Jack's house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Mormor did. My father had brought our frying pan from home

Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper plans--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

Home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made of memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

There is no place more delightful than home.

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

Wherever the living are,' whispered my foster mother, 'the dead will be there too.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!