Quotes about family
family children writing
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. Anne Tyler
family-and-friends lots-of-friends burying
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times. Amy Grant
family home simple
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results. Alva Myrdal
family sex disappointment
I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes. Anne Roiphe
family husband father
we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use. Anne Sexton
family daughter father
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. Ambrose Bierce
family men care
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
family mothers-day mom
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
family mother flower
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Alice Walker
family opportunity self
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation. Alice Miller
family mother shields
Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets. Alice Cooper
family fall diversity
United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop
family teamwork father
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".
family love
What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself. Martin Clunes
family five north time
When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations. Kevin Whately
family incredible nina played quite remember themselves thinking
I played Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I remember thinking it's incredible to see all the actresses in the past that've played her. It's quite strengthening. You feel a part of the family of actresses going through and giving something of themselves to the role. Lily James
family sang
I always sang harmony with my family growing up. Linda Ronstadt
family-guy balls like-family
I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious. Alexander Ludwig
family sister mom
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends. Alexa Vega
family talking alex
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley
family long-distance-relationship witty
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. Albert Schweitzer
family responsibility heredity
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. Doug Larson
family art expression
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. Don DeLillo
family people three
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. Douglas Coupland
family inspiring christian
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L. Moody
family intellectual family-life
Our family life was certainly not intellectual. Douglass North
family running law
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
family pumpkin starting-a-family
I would rather start a family than finish one. Don Marquis
family color together
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. Dolly Parton
family mother men
That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
family tolerate
When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.
family kind ifs
When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
family dream uncles
I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.