Quotes About Family

If there could be anything worse than having a parent die, it would be having a parent who never bothered to meet you.

She had to defend the people she loved the best.

A whole extra bed without a sister to go along with it!

Mrs. Tifton had cut off Jane's ha-ha-ha before it even began. Lydia thought this was probably a good thing.

Do you think she'll want to later? Rosalind, I mean, not Aunt Claire. I mean, I'm sure Aunt Claire could do football drills if she wanted to, but I'd rather have Ros—I mean…" Tommy had trailed off into an embarrassed silence. Skye

fret over Batty,

Tooth, I guess.

That's from The Sound of Music," said Jane, then started to hum along, in yet another key. Batty covered her ears and Jeffrey winced. Skye was less delicate. "Jane, be quiet," she said, and Jane was. Aunt Claire now moved on to "Do-Re-Mi," which sounded awful enough to make Hound abandon his exploration of the crutches.

Skye picked her up and tucked her in next to Batty, who now stirred and murmured a few words that sounded like "bee" and "sharp." This made no sense to Skye—and then she wondered if Rosalind had ever gone around at night listening to her sisters talking in their sleep. How strange. But Skye had nothing to worry about. She was certain that anything she herself said would be more interesting than boys' names or bees.

Jeanne Birdsall

Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

Your family are the people who pester you until you do the right thing.

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One of my teachers at the psychoanalytic institute where I trained used to say, only half humorously, that 'the most important prerequisite for a vocation as a psychotherapist is a depressed mother'; based on my history, I think that a suffering but inaccessible father and a damaged sibling should be added to the list of qualifications.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

I don't know if I killed my dad or not.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

Yeah, but you never told me why." "It reminds me of my grandmother," I admit. "We'd watch those old reruns one after another. Bewitched was her favorite." "Not

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

People should always consider returning home.