Family Relationships Quotes

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.

It's in a can. It's good forever.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

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.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

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.

Your best is good enough.

In my family strange is relative.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

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.

There’s no such thing as half family.

A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

The blessing begins at home.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

It ain't locked, till it's checked!

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

Sometimes family is just not what you were born into.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

I think we should wean Grandma.

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses

I think I rescued myself.

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every successful woman there are wonderful parents

Parents are like Kingdom, Your are the King.No matter where you stand, how Great n Rich you are!A King Is Always Known By His Kingdom.

I read therefore I write.

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Every family is a family of alligators.

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

No zone have a perfect Family, but my Family is perfect for Me

If I can send you a sign, I will.

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.

He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who she was before anyone had the opportunity to label her. She was supposed to be his “little girl”.

You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.