My Family Quotes

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But, that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of them in your heart.

Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal

A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

I lost my family, ” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.

A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

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

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.

Family isn't blood, " she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

you don't turn your back on family, even when they do.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.

The happy family is a myth for many.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

I love you enough to never make you choose.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,

A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

Bellybuttons are our link with the past.

ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one, But many.

Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

Forgiveness is the fruit of fellowship.

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.