Family Relationships Quotes

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride — he's my dad — and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

~ Nick Cave

There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them.” Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh, then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I’m going to write a story that’s so happy it’s going to make your liver explode. It’s going to be a great day.

~ Dina Kucera

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

~ Genevieve Dewey

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!

~ A. Louise Robertson

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

~ David Isay

She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn’t heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it.

~ Kellyn Roth

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

~ Liane Moriarty

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it’s over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.

~ Steve Goodier

So at family gatherings… I try to stick to the acceptable script. Indeed, I discover that the less I say, the happier everyone seems to be with me. I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t have been better off as a paraplegic or afflicted by some tragic form of cancer. The invisibility and periodicity of my disorder, along with how often I border on normalcy, allows them to evade my need for their understanding. And because our most enduring family heirloom is avoidance and denial of pain and suffering, I don’t need much prompting to shut myself down in their presence.

~ Kiera Van Gelder

The greatest crime ever created is caring and loving.

~ Unarine Ramaru

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

~ Zig Ziglar

So even though Grandpa's life has closed its final chapter, the story that he embodied continues each time we take a handful of dirt to check moisture levels or turn our head at the sound of the wind shifting directions before a storm. It lives on as we give thanks for the abundance that we have, whatever it looks like. It lives on in every decision we make that puts someone else first.

~ Heidi Barr

It's in a can. It's good forever.

~ Renata Suerth

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

~ Denis Markell

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane.

~ Robert Rowland Smith

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

~ Witi Ihimaera

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

~ Maya Angelou

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

~ Brady Udall

Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family.

~ Ally Carter

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

~ Rebecca Wells

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.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.

~ Karl Taro Greenfeld

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

~ Sarah Dessen

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

~ Dorothy Allison

Your best is good enough.

~ Vivian E. Greenberg

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.

~ Hilary Mantel

In my family strange is relative.

~ Kate Rockland

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

~ Victor Hugo

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

~ Eric Wilson

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

~ Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford

Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concerned was the greatest television show ever made. Hee Haw. While Roy and Buck sang the opening song, everyone would bicker and talk back and forth, what was better about the show, the music or the humor, what have you, the natural result of 40 people crowded around one rabbit eared television set. But once Hee Haw started, the talking was over. After that, it was all about the love. And so was everything before, really.

~ Brian Holers

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

~ Melisa M. Hamling

Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.

~ Trevor Noah

There’s no such thing as half family.

~ Sasha Martin

In those days food was never just sustenance, the very act of cooking knit our disparate lives together.

~ Sasha Martin

There is no doubt that the family conversation is the tool that is able to make a psychological and emotional communication between family members.It opens the space widely to the family members to gather on the conversation table discussing their ideas and listening to each member point of view.And since family unity and the strong the relationship between the family members is the correct choice of the parents in every time and place, the conversation window is the correct path to strengthen family bonding and presenting the psychological and emotional support to reach that goal.

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

As for you, do not wait until all lights are green to take off. Do not wait for all things to be in order such that they can see the future. You have to start were you are. You have to start now. You have to take action and make the commitment today. Do not accept to live another day in a miserable marriage. Apply what you are learning today and create the change that you want.

~ Taka Sande

In the beginning God did not make a church or cathedral, he made a family. In the beginning God did not appoint apostles, or prophets, or pastors etc, he appointed a husband and a wife in the covenant of marriage. In Genesis, the first mankind gathering was a wedding ceremony, and not a worship meeting. After God, the next thing that came was marriage.

~ Taka Sande

A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.

~ Taka Sande