Quotes About Family

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.

in her mother's wedding gown

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

My parents are pretty cool people.

Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn't discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1988?

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

Una tarde de domingo es inconfundible.

He came to see that marriage was not an institution, not even an idea, but a rational social process whose function was to raise children properly.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

Porque cualquiera que hiciere la voluntad de mi padre, que está en los cielos, ese es mi hermano, y mi hermana, y mi madre. 13

31 Hijo mío, respondió el padre, tú siempre estás conmigo, y todos los bienes míos son tuyos; 32 mas ya ves que era muy justo el tener un banquete, y regocijarnos, por cuanto este tu hermano había muerto, y ha resucitado; estaba perdido, y se ha hallado. 16

Hijo, ¿por qué te has portado así con nosotros? Mira cómo tu padre y yo llenos de aflicción te hemos andado buscando. 49 Y él les respondió: ¿Cómo es que me buscaban? ¿No sabían que yo debo emplearme en las cosas que miran al servicio de mi Padre?

26 Habiendo mirado pues Jesús a su madre, y al discípulo que él amaba, el cual estaba allí, dice a su madre: Mujer, ahí tienes a tu hijo. 27 Después dice al discípulo: Ahí tienes a tu madre. Y desde aquel punto se encargó de ella el discípulo, y la tuvo consigo en su casa. 28

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies.

The Hugel story, in many ways, is the story of Alsace. "My grandfather had to change his nationality four times," Johnny's brother André said. Grandfather Emile was born in 1869. He was born French, but two years later, in 1871, Alsace was taken over by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, and he became German. The end of World War I in 1918 made him French again. In 1940, when Alsace was annexed, he was forced to become German.

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I would rather start a family than finish one.