Quotes About Family

It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.

Aqueles que matámos, por mais estranhos e inimigos que sejam, tornam-se nossos parentes para sempre. Nunca mais se retiram, permanecem mais presentes que os vivos.

Não sei se tenho mais felicidade que tu: possuo uma casa para onde regressar. Tenho os meus pais, tenho os círculos onde me confirmo igual àquilo que os outros esperam de mim. Os que me amam aceitaram que eu tivesse partido. Mas exigem que volte a mesma, reconhecível, como se a viagem fosse um caso passageiro.

Mas a terra é um ser: carece de família, desse tear de existências a que chamamos ternura.

Meu pai era um homem que enchia o mundo, o pé dele entrava em casa e sentíamos o balanço do seu peso como se, de repente, estivéssemos num pequeno barco". My father was a men that filled the world, his foot entered homeand we felt the the swing of its weight, like, suddenly, we were in a little boat.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

I love seeing my family.

When I ask my mother if I can tape-record her for a memoir, she says, If I'm going to be betrayed it might as well be by my own daughter.

In discussing the slave trade, it is essential to view those trafficked first and foremost as human beings, with families, cultures, and sensibilities – no different from anyone else.

He knew every man who worked for him by his first name, it was said, but his daughters could not recall ever seeing him give their mother a kiss.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

Home is where you make it."

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.