Family Relationships Quotes
Family Relationships Quote of the day
Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.
Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.
But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.
A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...
You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.
This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.
A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.
There’s no such thing as half family.
You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.
...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...
If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.
Your best is good enough.
the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.
At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.
When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.
Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?
Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.
Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better.
You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.
When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.
She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.
