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Quotes About Family

Dopo Coconut Grove scoprirono finalmente cosa preferivano, quello di cui avevano più bisogno: semplicemente di loro tre, in una trinità malconcia ma intatta.
~ Paullina Simons
We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.
~ Paullina Simons
I'm going to die, she thought. Alone, in this village, under an oak. No one will ever find me. Who in my family will come to look for me? I'm going to die here alone in the woods and turn to moss, and on Fifth Soviet they will open up another bottle of vodka and chase me down with pickles, and say, this is for our Tania.
~ Paullina Simons
We're not nomads, we're not gypsies! We have a home!
~ Paullina Simons
I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't get up. Just can't. She closed her eyes and felt herself drifting. Through the haze in front of her she heard Alexander's voice. "Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I've never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I'll take care of you.
~ Paullina Simons
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression.30 As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.
~ Paulo Freire
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
~ Pauly Shore
Shankara assured her he would return whenever his mother, conscious, unconscious or burdened by sorrow, needed him.
~ Unknown
I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.
~ Paz de la Huerta
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
~ Pearl Buck
If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
~ Pearl Cleage
This society gives points for pregnancy and for birthing, but after that, we isolate the mother and the baby and expect them to function the best way they can. It is very anti-family, anti-woman, anti-person!
~ Pearl Cleage
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
~ Pearl S. Buck
CLARÍN: ¿A mi padre le perdisteis el respeto? Sois unos tales por cuales.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Y claro que no tenés tiempo, no lo tenés acá, porque tu tiempo está en otro lugar, con tu mujer y tu hijo. Sos de otro tiempo.
~ Unknown
Lo bueno del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia. Lo malo del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia.
~ Unknown
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
~ Peg Bracken
But sibling relationships can also be shaped by the dynamic between the unloving mother and her daughter, most particularly when a mother differentiates between her children, being loving and attentive to one but not to another. In many families, the dynamic will weaken sibling bonds.
~ Unknown
As Adrienne Rich so acutely observed, "It is hard to write about my own mother. Whatever I do write, it is my story I am telling, my version of the past. If she were to tell her own story, other landscapes would be revealed. But in my landscape or hers, there would be old, smoldering patches of deep-burning anger.
~ Unknown
The mother's relationship to her daughter not only forms the earliest, if not primary, foundation for how the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.
~ Unknown
I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles. I am so thrilled." To add to her remarks, she flashed a 16-carat diamond wedding ring that she claimed she could not wear often because of its weight. She also announced that the count had given her all the jewelry and heirlooms belonging to his royal family.
~ Unknown
Joséphine as saying: "He sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything." This was good news for black Americans who still faced racial prejudice in the United States. Probably the most surprised person was Willie Baker, who read the story in the Chicago
~ Unknown
The door opened. "We're here," said Mrs. Rogers. Aunt Myra came in. "Now!" said Amelia Bedelia. "Greetings, greetings, greetings," said the three children. "What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers. "You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia. "Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake." "What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra. "Thank you.
~ Peggy Parish
Every time she shut her eyes she saw herself wrapped in his arms in the middle of that beautiful bed just right for conceiving children.
~ Unknown