Quotes About Family

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Now I feel I have your family's troubles on my head, whether you believe that or not. I seem to have this inbred sense of responsibility in certain things, and once I feel I am responsible, I do not rest until the matter is resolved.

wasn't conscious of anything I'd left behind and felt no regrets about leaving family or possessions. It was as if God had removed anything negative or worrisome from my consciousness, and I could only rejoice at being together with these wonderful people.

Heaven was many things, but without a doubt, it was the greatest family reunion of all.

I have an aunt who married so late in life that Medicare picked up 80 percent of the honeymoon.

I'm sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands," Kitteredge said. "He's a friend of the family." So that's it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Mateo runs up and Pablo hugs him. It's amazing, he thinks, that he never gets tired of that sensation.

the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

And an epiphany—the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

Su hijo era una ortodoncia andante, con su factura correspondiente: cuando no estaba en el dentista, estaba encerrado en su habitación haciéndose pajas; y su hija estaba resentida por haber tenido que dejar a sus amigos de Glendora, sobre todo a un tal Travis al que Eddie estaba seguro de que le hacía mamadas.

Danny's like his old man," Pasco says. "Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer's? They forget everything but the grudges.

He embarrassed the family," Jacky said at his sentencing hearing. "So you killed your own brother," the judge said. "Half brother," Jacky said. "What, maybe I should have only half killed him?" The judge maxed him out.

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Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?

The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

There were five children. In the late thirties my father built a house for us, something not too dissimilar to Miess Tugendhat house. It was wonderful to live in but strange to see on the Texas prairie. On Sundays people used to park their cars out on the street and stare. We had a routine, the family, on Sundays. We used to get up from Sunday dinner, if enough cars had parked, and run out in front of the house in a sort of chorus line, doing high kicks.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

This Mikey," Kelp said, "he's the son of a mob guy, which is even worse than a mob guy. He came up soft, and he thinks he's hard.

Since he'd been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he'd never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might even have stamped his foot again, except he sensed that a kind of lumpish stillness might better illustrate the sulk he'd fallen into.

Three-quarters of the way down the aisle another stewardess, somewhat older and more harried and human, placed me in my seat amid a gigantic Puerto Rican family on its way home for the holidays. (When I say gigantic, I do not mean to imply that any of them were tall.) (Nor do I mean to imply, by that disclaimer, that any of them were thin. I was a bit squeezed.)

Well, you might not think it to look at me," Dortmunder told him, "but I got a family crest." "Have you?" "Yeah. And it's got a motto on it." "I am anxious to hear this motto." "Quid lucrum istic mihi est." Mr. Hemlow squinted; the red-headed hawk in flight. "I'm afraid my Latin is insufficient for that." "What's in it for me," Dortmunder translated.

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!