Family Quotes

I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

~ Tahereh Mafi

My family is like America, we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

~ Anthony Liccione

I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

~ Connor Franta

There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.

~ Edith Schaeffer

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Take it from a middle child; being a middle child sucks. You have neither the responsibility that comes with being the oldest nor the luxury that comes with being the baby. You have N O T H I N G. No label. No identity. Not to mention my fellow middle child, Nicola, was the only girl in the family. See! Nothing! You're the in-between child, squeezed into the order of things. You're the Idaho to New York and Los Angeles. You're the regular-sized cup in between the large and small. (I actually like a good medium-sized drink, to be quite honest, but you get the point.)

~ Connor Franta

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

~ Abby Clements

Merry christmas to those who celebrate it...forgive your enemy, tolerance to your opponents, generosity to your friends, LOVE to your family, be good example to the kids and respect to yourself..is the best gift during this holy day...may you have the most joyful year!!! (Ejump,2016)

~ Ejump - 2016

If we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic. - Dov Brezak

~ Dov Brezak

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

~ Liane Moriarty

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

~ Liane Moriarty

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

~ Liane Moriarty

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

~ Liane Moriarty

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

~ Paula Gruben

But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart.

~ Abby Clements

You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.

~ Abby Clements

Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.

~ Abby Clements

I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.

~ Amber D. Tran

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?

~ Dmitry Dyatlov

Whosoever does not believe in the existence of a sixth sense has clearly not regarded their own mother. How it is they know all they know about you, even those secrets you locked away so tightly in the most hidden compartments of your heart, remains one of the great mysteries of the world. And they don't just know—they know instantly.

~ Narissa Doumani

We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our children. We may fantasize that we are not really changed, that we can go back to poring over Wittgenstein, immersing ourselves in the latest movies, being beach bums- whatever it was that we were before the child or children came into our lives. But part of what we have lost is the part of our identity that is the person-without-children. The parent we are now has a life inextricably entwined not only without our past life and our private selves but also with the lives of our children.

~ Daniel Gottlieb

I think we owe it to our children to share our wisdom. If we share our wisdom for the purpose of changing our children, then that’s hitting them over the head with a hammer or shoving something down their throats. If the wisdom turns into advice, that’s selfish. But if we simply share ourselves and let our children know our hearts, then it’s a gift. And I think it’s a gift we’re responsible for giving them.

~ Daniel Gottlieb

When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.

~ Carl Busby Sr

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

~ Cassandra Clare

Thanks, Mom. Thanks for making me try out for this play.'I think I might have just made being a mother totally worthwhile for her.I will try to never forget her face...Mom's got tears in her eyes and she's smiling. It's an amazing look.I have to remember how powerful it can be to say thank you.Especially to the people you live with.

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.

~ Nina Lacour

You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the Fortner family.” He smiled and took her hand in his. “Like I said, don’t worry…before you know it you’ll have Jeff back and you can tell him he’s going to be a father!

~ C.g. Faulkner

....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

~ Michael Robotham

There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely everyday thing, but to me it is the happiest of them all. It is evening time here in the old house and the supper is cooking and the table is set for the whole family. It hurts a mother, Laura, when the plates begin to be taken away one by one. First there are seven and then six and then five...and on down to a single plate. So I like to think of the table set for the whole family at supper time. The robins are singing in the cottonwoods and the late afternoon sun is shining across the floor... The children are playing out in the yard. I can hear their voices and happy laughter. There isn't much to that memory is there? Out of a lifetime of experiences you would hardly expect that to be the one I would choose as the happiest, would you? But it is.

~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

Hurt can make you blind to the truth

~ Abby Clements

ilet myselfknowthat my lifedoesn'thave to be overjust becausetheirs are& i wentahead& paintedthe sunback into my sky.I am allowed to live my life.

~ Amanda Lovelace

The She-dragon called Ghleanna had been standing behind him. She grabbed his hair and yanked the old dragon forward while ramming the blade of her sword into his snout. Bram glanced down at Kachka and smiled. “Isn’t she glorious?”Ghleanna pulled the old dragon off her sword and focused on the soldiers. “Kill all of them!” she screamed, and dragons dropped from the skies, landing hard on the soldier dragons.“The royals always forget,” Bram murmured. “Cadwaladrs never fight alone.

~ G.a. Aiken

If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I’d have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you’re going to India to see your family, you’re not going to relax, you’re not going to have a nice time. No, you’re going so you can touch the very last of your bloodline, to say hello to the new ones and goodbye to the older ones, since who knows when you’ll visit again. You are working.

~ Scaachi Koul

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

~ Kathy Hepinstall

Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.

~ Criss Jami

I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also.

~ A.h. Septimius