My Family Quotes

Your life is the people who fill it, " Mel says. "And nothing's good without them.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

If we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." - Dov Brezak

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart.

You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.

Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.

My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?

When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.

....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

Hurt can make you blind to the truth

ilet myselfknowthat my lifedoesn'thave to be overjust becausetheirs are& i wentahead& paintedthe sunback into my sky.I am allowed to live my life.

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

Family isn't always who you're born to. It's who you're with, who you love. Those families can even be stronger." - Meira, Frost Like Night

It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.

It’s truly interesting to observe how genetics works in families, and what a huge lottery it is to inherit some of our relatives’ appearance features.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

What you do is less important than the difference you make.

Wolves are brotherly, " he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

Good parents...give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.