Quotes About Understanding

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 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.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

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

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

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.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.