Quotes About Family

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something?

Father Michaels' sermon was mercifully short. He had a reputation for three-minute homilies, tightly written, provocative and insightful. His words centered on the true meaning of Christianity. That is was all about love. Love of God, love of self, love of family, love of community. Love was a gift.

Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.

Mother of the groom. Wear beige and shut up.

Naturally, we shopped, we had lunch, we did homework and we cleaned closets together. But beyond those mundane amusements—and

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Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.' I just always loved

As long as she loved my boy, I loved her. If she broke his heart, I'd kill her with my bare hands. This seemed reasonable to me. But

Did my daughter, my only child, think she was going to take control of her wedding, without me?

This was the thing about family heirlooms: humble or grand, they made the past alive again.

Wasn't it just like good old mom to remind me my efforts were ill conceived and unnecessary?

Even Momma, hard-hearted as she may have seemed, felt very badly for the boys.

I stirred my coffee and looked at my beautiful grandson. What a great gift he was to all of us. It was so wonderful to have a young person like Charlie in my life

Dorothea Benton Frank

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Yep. You're right. Come on. Let's go find Glam-ma.

At her funeral service, our family's reverend reminded me that "I feel great loss because I had great love." Nothing could be more true, because that is the price of great love.

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If I have learned anything about raising children, it's that keeping the conversation going is so very important. Once you stop talking to each other terrible things can happen

Dorothea Benton Frank

I WILL TELL YOU THE one thing that I have learned about life in my thirty-something years that is an absolute truth: nothing and no one in this entire world matters more to a sane woman than her children. I have one