Quotes About Family

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

In the meantime, thank you for existing. At least I have one relation (other than Aunt Elizabeth) with some sense. I find it a great comfort.

Do we have to invite all of them?" "We might as well," Cimorene said. "We're asking everyone else. And most of them are family." "I think it would be easier to elope," Mendanbar said.

must tell them sometime," Alethia said. "I would rather get it over with now. And they are conveniently on our doorstep.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

My mother folded each pair of trousers over her arm, pulling the legs out so that the creases lay perfectly. She handles clothes meticulously. S did Nai-nai. But there was a difference in attitude. To my grandmother, clothes held a kind of magic--they could change your destiny one way or the other. To my mother, they were servile, like farm animals in China. Treat them well and they'll perform their function.

Perhaps 'home' can be where one comes from, as well as where one lives.

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Don't carry the bruises or pass on bruises.

Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Pride won't comfort you when you're sad. Pride won't keep you warm on winter nights. Pride won't give you babies and a family of your own.

You might resent your brother, you might even hate him at times. But in the end, he was your brother.   For

Kendall had asked about her father.

Husbands come and go, children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.