Quotes About Family

Haven't I been a good father?" he asked Joseph. "I always

Richard Ramirez was the fifth and last child born to Julian Tapia Ramirez and his wife, Mercedes. They had had three boys, a girl, and finally Richard—or Richie, as the family affectionately calls him.

When Julian, who was big for his age, was fourteen, he stood up to his father, pulled the belt from his hand, and threw it on the ground. "You are not beating me anymore!" he proclaimed defiantly. This was a crime punishable by death in Camargo, Mexico, in 1944. A son did not defy his father. There were customs and regulations that had to be adhered to, but after that day, Jose Ramirez and his father did not beat Julian anymore.

Julian arrived in Juarez with all his possessions contained in a single battered cardboard suitcase on August 3, 1948. He and Mercedes were married on August 9 at Juarez City Hall, in the Presidency Building, before a few friends and no family.

Clark and Daniel spoke to Ruth and implored her to try and change her brother's mind. She came up from El Paso to visit Richard that weekend, but even she couldn't alter his resolve not to put on a defense.

Clark said it was stupid not to put his father on the stand. Daniel told Richard he had spoken to his mother and she had cried and begged him to convince her youngest-born to put up a defense. That seemed to strike a chord somewhere deep inside of Richard. He said he would like to talk with Dr. Jo 'Ellan Dimitrius and ask how the jury might react if he didn't put up a defense, didn't take the stand and deny the charges.

In El Paso, Mercedes, Julian, and the rest of the Ramirez clan went to church and prayed Richard wouldn't be given the death sentence. In her prayers to Mary, Mercedes explained it was a big, Satan-inspired mistake, that her son could not have done the things they said he'd done, that Satan's hand was at work here. She implored Mary to speak to her son and tell him the truth.

Richard Kuklinski was Roy DeMeo's Luca Brasi.

Richard's first day at school was not as a joyous time in the Ramirez household as the other children's had been. None was doing well in school. Joseph and Ruth got by and stayed out of trouble, but Ruben and Robert were always in trouble, getting failing marks and getting into fights.

The Ramirezes first realized Richard was epileptic when he had an attack in the fifth grade.

Joseph had graduated from high school, but did not want to go to school anymore. He had met Sofia, and he wanted to work and save so he could settle down with her. He, like his brothers, had had enough of living under Julian's tyrannical rule. Joseph lived with Robert until Robert secured a job in Morinze, Arizona, a four-hour drive from El Paso. Joseph then began living with Sofia, his childhood sweetheart.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

You hear all this talk about Southern hospitality. And they'll break their necks for you, all right, if you're family. Or if you've lived here for a hundred years. But if you're a stranger …

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Both his parents had died of heart problems, which he feared would happen to him, so he'd begun to jog and was hit by a truck.

The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.

My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.

Do you have a mother?" "Naturally I used to have one," I said. "A father, too, if memory serves. Only somewhere along the way I seem to have lost them both. Careless of me.

Based on a survey by MarkPlus Insight in 2015, about 74 percent of Indonesian women managed all the family finances—controlling even the income of their spouses—although only 51 percent of them were working.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?

Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long.

They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.