Quotes About Family

Killing her and the boys had not been the best way to resolve the custody dispute.

Fritz had an older sister that he'd never thought to mention, and that his story about having had a terrible childhood that kept him from talking about his family was, as Barney had stated, bull.

When they're all here and they're loud and fighting, you wish for just a little bit of peace. Then they all leave at the same time, and the silence rips you apart.

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

LESSON 8: Forming families is serious business. It requires a measure of thoughtful planning, economic stability, and commitment, particularly with the downward spiral of wages and job opportunities for young families of all races and with the rising costs of good child care and housing, which often require more than one employed parent.

By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.

Are a woman's wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Logan, you Cavanaughs are like one-stop shopping. Police protection, legal counsel, dinner and last rites—it's all taken care of in one neat little package. Unbelievable!

You must be desperate if you're asking Mom for adivce. Did she sit you down on the couch ?" "I'm not a patient of hers, asswipe. I'm her favorite son." Derrick ignored Gage's huff. The little snot. (...) "Favorite, my ass. She pities you. Gage is nothing more than a baby-maker. I'm the favorite." Dylan preened, pulling at the cuffs on his designer shirt. "Culture, charm, good looks and a real occupation. What's not to love

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.

I told her about how people in families felt left out sometimes, and how that could result in disappointment or sadness but also become something more volatile, a kind of uncontrolled fury.

remember that my father was sad much of the time and that he grasped at ways of feeling better, whether through drinking or through escape. He reached out and all too often found nothing there to comfort him.

Since many cutters come from enmeshed families—where identity, family role, and boundary are confused—the task of establishing an independent identity is much more difficult. And if a girl has only a tenuous internal representation of herself to begin with, she may fear that the physical changes wrought by puberty will make her into someone else—a stranger unrecognizable even to herself.

Maybe the objective was to make sure we could all vaporize together. One last, wholesome, nuclear family activity.

My mom got it fixed for me," he said softly.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.