My Family Quotes

We are one human family.

You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!

I am empowered and thankful for my parents’ love and support.

Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

Genuine love is so very powerful! Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

Some people, though related by blood, are as sworn enemies. Others, bound only by friendship, would die for one another.

Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.

If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.

The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life!

The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

my motheris pure radiance. she is the suni can touchand kissand holdwithout getting burnt.

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Never sacrifice your children for the bigger house, fancier car or the 'better life'. The price you pay is hefty and non-refundable in the end.

Real relations are not what we make. It's what time makes.

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away

Your mother wasn’t upset. “Scars stay with you so you don’t forget, ” she said. She seemed almost satisfied.

When a hug is this big, you feel it for days.

They say family's first, but family is the first to get you hurt

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

It took me a long time to realiseThat mothers are women who carry you And not necessarily in their womb.

Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.

Every generation has its defining challenge. Ours is the systematic annihilation of the biblical family."~ Doug Phillips

The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

It is sometimes hard to be a family.

There is no right way to be a family.