My Family Quotes
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.
I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon
My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.