My Family Quotes

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.

Husband and wife are like a pair of scissors, joined together for life but always moving in opposite directions. If anyone comes in between, they join together and cut them off.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.

He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who she was before anyone had the opportunity to label her. She was supposed to be his “little girl”.

You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.

I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.

Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.

You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions.

The most wonderful part of life is when your family becomes your friends, and your friends become your family.

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Dad was the glue to the broken pieces of our family.

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

The first person I knew who died was Beth March. I cried for three days.

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.

Most parents don't know really their children.

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.

If I can send you a sign, I will.

No zone have a perfect Family, but my Family is perfect for Me

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

Every family is a family of alligators.

Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

I read therefore I write.

Parents are like Kingdom, Your are the King.No matter where you stand, how Great n Rich you are!A King Is Always Known By His Kingdom.

Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every successful woman there are wonderful parents

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

I think I rescued myself.

Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

I think we should wean Grandma.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.