Quotes About Family

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."

Ellie's son, Nicholas,

Worst parent on the planet. All he knew how to do was bark orders and walk away. He didn't understand that his daughter was smarter than that, that she wasn't a dog.

Her father there, her mother here. A universe-sized gap between them.

Once she was deeply fascinated with her parents. She had craved knowledge about them. As a child she fiddled with locked doors and drawers, got down on her knees and dug through closets, lingered outside her father's study during business calls until her mother shooed her off. Fifteen years ago, she had at last recognized the pointlessness in trying to uncover the truth from a man who had never actually been convicted of anything, and a woman who had sealed shut her emotions decades ago.

Meanwhile, Alex's daughter was away for the summer, too, in Colorado with her father (supposedly hiking, likely in front of an array of screens),

It's just that we want to love them, these men," said Alex. An intensely bittersweet sensation riveted her body. "We really do." "I don't," said her daughter. "You might someday," Alex said. "Never.

She had given up on her parents years ago. Things would never be honest between them. So why bother with any relationship at all?

I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer.

Alex was delighted and astonished with her mother for behaving as a mother should for once.

I know you don't like him," said her mother. "Your father has always been a complicated man." "I'll say," said Alex. "But you're complicated, too. And he loves you," Barbra said. "He always thought you were smart and capable, and no one was prouder of you when you graduated from law school. He said, 'She can get me out of jail someday.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

I kissed her again, tenderly touching my lips to hers. Now what?" Kiss the kids, and then you and I can celebrate eleven years of in-your-face-we-made-it. How about that?

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children