Quotes About Family

Sally said with wide-eyed innocence, "I think you're pretty too, Pa." Clay seemed taken aback for a moment, then he smiled down at Sally and chucked her under the chin with his gloved fist. "Well, thank you darlin'. I reckon that's about the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me.

No, Grace, it's not 'Miss Calhoun.'" Daniel had heard her say those words many times. They'd always set his teeth on edge. "It's Mrs. Reeves." Daniel added with angry triumph, "And guess what? I'm calling you Grace and the boys are calling you Ma.

And he'd have to track them down if he wanted something to do besides go charging back into the house and kissing Molly again. Right in front of her brother this time. Oh, there was an idea fit to get a man shot.

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

A sister is always there to defend you no matter what.

One's sister is part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart, soul and memory.

I'm a one-hour mama, so no one-minute papa. Ain't the kind of man for me.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.

Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well?....My mother.

Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.

No one knows better than a Sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she...

One's Sister is a part of one's essential self,an eternal presence of one's heart and soul and memory.

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

My sisters have taught me how to live.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Loving a sister is an unconditional narcissistic and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother's love. Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience.

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."