Quotes About Relationships

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

A family is a mystery.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.