Quotes About Family

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

That one's not for Mommy or Daddy. Anya says she wants you to have it.

Incontable es el número de criaturas que han tomado por padre a quien no lo era suyo y por hermanos a quienes lo eran a medias

Pero lo vivido por los padres con anterioridad al nacimiento de los hijos suele ser ignorado por éstos, o aún es más, no les concierne hasta que ya son adultos plenos y es muy tarde para preguntar, a veces.

Whichever or however, the origin went down, this was the site where Candice made things ultimately happen to the family and made Gray all that he was now and always will be, which seemed like a little longer than forever.  

She asks questions. She paraphrases what her mother says to make sure she understands it, and to make sure her mother understands that Greta understands. Greta is also listening for the feelings that might be behind what her mother is saying, and acknowledges them when she hears them.

Home education may not be the choice for EVERYONE, but home education IS a choice for ANYONE.

from the dead, ascended to heaven, and resumed His position of supreme authority. When we believe and receive His good news, He instantly conveys us into His family and into His kingdom. That is the triumph of the gospel—the victory of Jesus on our behalf.

Socialists know that as long as the family remains strong, socialism cannot flourish. So, there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home to the government.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Patterns of interaction are transmitted, more or less faithfully, from one generation to another. Thus the inheritance of mental health and of mental ill health through the medium of family microculture is certainly no less important, than is their inheritance through the medium of genes.6

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime

All writers are unaffiliated. The novelist, the poet, will understand the institutions they live within, including their religious traditions, as aggregate historically amended fictions. Appointing themselves as witnesses, they are necessarily independent of all institutions, including the institution of the family-which may be why nothing makes family members more nervous than the discovery that one of them is a writer.

If she hated me that much, why hadn't she given me up? Or was giving up a child an act of love?

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

It takes three to make a child.

annie died the other day never was there such a lay-- whom,among her dollies,dad first(don't tell your mother)had

Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he felt in having made her cry.

I'm Homer, the blind brother.

Jacqueline, for how many days have I been without food. There was a crash, the whole house shook. Where is Langley? Where is my brother?

Your father's doing is in you, like his father's was in him, and we can never start new, we take on all the burden: the only thing that grows is trouble, the disasters get bigger, that's all. I