My Family Quotes

The future belongs to those who procreate.

Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.

What makes me feel rich is spending time with my children, knowing we are making beautiful memories together.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Both heaven and hell.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell.

There are certain things we owe our little sisters.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

It's safe to tell us stuff, okay?" This means it's not safe to tell them anything.

You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you

AMELIA: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

A criminal always returns home.

Family is a fortress.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts, " he'd say. "Both heaven and hell.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again.

Social values, friends, communities and families control our thoughts.

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs.

Early violence and early abandonment damages people and family systems, and can persist for decades if not healed.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.

a daughter shouldnot have to beg her fatherfor a relationship

Family is not a career. It’s why you have a career. If you can’t be there for the big moments, then why are you doing it?

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a chance to say good-bye.

She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.

The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

I love my family because they are always there for me even during my fragile moments.

It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on.

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.