Quotes About Family

Addie Moore had a grandson named Jamie who was just turning six. In the early summer the trouble between his parents got worse. There were bad arguments in the kitchen and bedroom, accusations and recriminations, her tears and his shouts. They finally separated on a trial basis and she went off to California to stay with a friend, leaving Jamie with his father. He called Addie and told her what happened, that his wife had quit her job as a hairdresser and had gone out to the West Coast.

In the house Dad said, Go see about her, will you? She won't talk to me now. Lorraine went out to the porch. Can I sit with you, Mom? No, I don't want any company. I don't want to speak to you or anybody else right now.

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He wants to see Daddy before he's gone. They never cared for each other before. It's how people are when somebody's dying. They want to forget the past. Forgive things. Just so he doesn't upset him.

You're a clever one. Her eyes twinkled with humor. We'll have very clever children.

I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.

Leia Organa married Han Solo; and together they had three children.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. Faith, family, friends, and fortitude - with these four pillars, you can and will survive. -Kevin Reilly

She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Blood is a powerful thing

People…shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward on final, cherished province: Motherhood. How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby. How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being, to know that there was no need any longer for pebble games.

She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.