Quotes About Family

sometimes there's someone else, especially when the sky goes dark: the person guiding slowly from behind. That's who I've become in my family.

Honey, your uncle don't even have his papers right. What kind of liberties you think he has?" Aisha

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

I don't know what my sister thinks about feminism.

When I entered the kitchen, Grandma was chopping onions, tears rolling down her face. My eyes started to burn. "I hate raw onions," I said. "You'll appreciate them once you get older. Then, when you need torch and you don't want anyone to know you're crying, you can just chop onions.

Can't say I miss my husband, though. He turned into a real asshole about this and kicked me out of my house and then filed for divorce. Just because I nailed his brother, and the minister.

Un mal hábito entra como un huésped, se une a la familia y, finalmente, se hace con el control.» El Talmud

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

Quizá en el fondo se quieran bastante, aunque eso del amor entre hermanos lleve consigo la cuota de mutua exasperación que otorga la costumbre.

La intención subterránea, es seguir existiendo después del fin. Y a esos efectos tanto sirve la existencia de un hijo como la de una cicatriz. Después de todo, también el hijo es una cicatriz.

Mi madre... poseía una sensibilidad en constante alerta, que tanto mi padre como ella misma tenían por su falla más visible.

Hija única. Yo también fui hijo único. Y no es fácil, uno acaba por sentirse desamparado.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail... We democrats believe that we can make it all the new way with the whole family intact

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

You know what the aristocracy is like. They turn their children over to the care of nurses and governesses from the day they are born and have little to do with them after that.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.