Quotes About Family

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

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But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Strangely my husband had more in common with my parents than I had; all were on a lifelong mission to deny the truth, the truth being that they were furiously disappointed.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally.

Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

Now I understand why you do not wish to marry. You have dedicated your life to others -- to your sick brother and your aged aunt and your little brother who will be dependent on you all his life. You have sacrificed your own life for them.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family.

Lynda Johnson Robb: Children's books tie together the stages of life. You read them when you are eight or ten or twelve, and then they stay with you. I still have many books that I loved as a child and have kept; I read books to my own children; and now we will share books with my grandchildren. ...Children's books stabilize me, they are my roots; they help me in times of stress. They help me connect to happy memories, to those I love, to the generations in my family. They provide comfort.

We don't wanta lose that little baby. Miss Hazel Marie might think she don't want it, but she do. If she lose it, she be worse upset than if she don't. When the Lord send a baby, he send the wantin', too.

Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

Women in the early forties who have been wives and mothers for over twenty years are liable to suffer from a slight sense of guilt whenever they embark on any purely self-regarding activity; but Lady Kilmichael had better reasons than this for her desire to avoid the eyes of acquaintances on her journey. She was leaving her home, her husband and her family - possibly for good.

Once burned and twice shy in love, Dara plans to study hard and graduate at the top of her law school class. Sean's romantic overtures don't tempt her. But Sean's brother Mike is her new boss, and his piercing gaze and brooding presence are infinitely harder to resist. Dara's internship at

He was a great family man, a bit too soft-hearted for a policeman, in Vera's opinion; but then she thought Holly was heartless, so perhaps she was never pleased.

The one thing Vera knew about parents was that they liked talking about their offspring.