My Family Quotes

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past. And the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

The Kite CharmFor A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child

The Sewing Machine CharmTo A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together

Every day, they gave him new reasons to smile, laugh, worry, and wonder.

The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar

Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose.

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.

I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

The ones you least expect earn the greatest respect.

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you

I am getting by doing just the bare minimum and it takes up so many hours of my waking day.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.

But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can’t say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that’s important is left unspoken.

Treat people like family because they are.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.

It's funny how people can take up so much roomin your heartbut you still have plenty left for someone else

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.

My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family.

The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.

Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?

Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. That touch typically brought me to my knees, but now it cut me

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

Just as we shine the light of scrutiny on those around us, so must we also use it to illuminate our own lives

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

I love you is biblical.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.