Quotes About Family

There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

A britek, jövök rá, csak akkor temetnek el valakit, amikor már annyira halott, hogy más szót kell rá használni. A britek addig várnak a temetéssel, hogy a rokonok nem is gyászolni gy?lnek össze, hanem panaszkodni, hogy még mindig ott van a tetem.

Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance. Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.

There was something out of kilter with his mother's happiness, as though a light had been switched on by a passing stranger, and left to illuminate an empty room.

And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.

issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.

women who saved their families because men were less ready to bury their pride and do whatever job

their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,

Award-winning author of eight Southern Sisters mysteries: Murder on a Girls' Night Out, Murder on a Bad Hair Day, Murder Runs in the Family, Murder Makes Waves, Murder Gets a Life, Murder Shoots the Bull, Murder Carries a Torch, and her final book, Murder Boogies with Elvis.

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

What kind of parents are you? You lost one son, but you threw the other away.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 JOHN 3:1

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved — you and your household. ACTS 16:31

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. MATTHEW 19:29

there just could not be that many incestuous fathers and uncles walking the streets of Vienna.

the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.