Family Quotes

On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.

~ Marsha Hinds

Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work, he might find my lengthy account the least bit tedious. For there was mastery as well as pleasure in our nightly ritual. Through my knowledge, I commanded my father's undivided attention, the sign of his love. It would instill in me an early awareness of the power of narrative, which would introduce a lifetime of storytelling, fueled by the naive confidence that others would find me as entertaining as my father did.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home.

~ Maria V. Snyder

They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last thing they want and need, is somebody (let alone their own child) telling them that their beliefs about life are bullshit / full of holes/ severely flawed.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.

~ Ransom Riggs

To the members of my family who are no longer with us, I’d like to say I’m sorry. There is a quote by Stephen Dunn I’ve always loved; he says, “Our parents died at least twice, the second time when we forgot their stories.” I hope by remembering your stories, the good and the bad, you can forgive me for sharing parts of your lives you may have wished to have kept private.

~ Kenny Porpora

Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy, shaded by the bamboo screen at the door, the damp rush mats at the windows, the old heavy curtains and the spotted, peeling walls, and in their shade she saw how she loved him, loved Raja and Tara and all of them who had lived in this house with her. There could be no love more deep and full and wide than this one, she knew. No other love had started so far back in time and had had so much time in which to grow and spread. They were really all parts of her, inseparable, so many aspects of her as she was of them, so that the anger or the disappointment she felt in them was only the anger and disappointment she felt at herself. Whatever hurt they felt, she felt. Whatever diminished them, diminished her. What attacked them, attacked her. Nor was there anyone else on earth whom she was willing to forgive more readily or completely, or defend more instinctively and instantly. She could hardly believe, at that moment, that she would Iive on after they did or they would continue after she had ended. If such an unimaginable phenomenon could take place, then surely they would remain flawed, damaged for life. The wholeness of the pattern, its perfection, would be gone.She lay absolutely still, almost ceasing to breathe, afraid to diminish by even a breath the wholeness of that love.

~ Anita Desai

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

~ Wendell Berry

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

We could be having a good or a bad day and Bear would give you a warm greeting that could melt your heart

~ J. Wesley Porter

Another item that appeared in the backyard was rabbits. Bear would chase them away.

~ J. Wesley Porter

If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.

~ Ron Baratono

The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.They'll band together like an army of one.

~ Becca Ritchie

Let's go kick som

~ Becca Ritchie

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.It's not the type of love that ends.

~ Emery Lord

A friend is a favourable family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Real relations are not what we make. It's what time makes.

~ Karishma Magvani

There is no better way to crush someone’s self-confidence than to tell this person that her / his choice was wrong, and that she / he should have listened to us (parents). Because, obviously, we know how to make the right choices and she / he does not.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

To be quite frank, I don't know nor understand how one can stand up and say I'm a 'perfect father'! I reckon myself to be a great dad in my children's eyes and maybe the kids I interact with just by passing by and cracking a few jokes that eventually put a smile on their faces. I call myself a 'great dad' cause my CREATOR chose me to bring an innocent and beautiful life to this world because the Heavens above believed that: 1. I'd never compromise my child's happiness over anything or anyone! 2. I'd do whatever possible, within reason of course to ensure that my son sees LOVE, HOPE, FAITH, HAPPINESS, LAUGHTER, OPULENCE, THE HEAVENS and definitely a FATHER whenever he looks at me or through my eyes! 3. I'm a GREAT-DAD until my children say otherwise.

~ Katlego Semusa

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

~ Danielle Steel

Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

He listens when I talk.

~ Gwenda Bond

Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?

~ Lukasz Laniecki

And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?

~ Peter Geye

There are so many similarities between [my father] and me, I can see that. But what I think really scares me are the countless ways I'm not like him. And because the past is getting farther and farther behind me, and the end coming closer and closer, I'm afraid I'll never meet the man in myself that I saw in him.

~ Peter Geye

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

~ Liane Moriarty

We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots.

~ Siri Hustvedt

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.

~ Dee Waldeck

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

~ Liane Moriarty

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

~ Liane Moriarty

You don’t choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.

~ Heather Babcock

There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!

~ Editor

What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

~ Arlaina Tibensky

Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have lived.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

~ Steve Pemberton

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

~ Eugene O'neill

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich