Family Quotes

A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.

~ Heidi Barr

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~ Sacramento4Kids

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

~ A.h. Septimius

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.

~ Durga Chew-Bose

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.

~ Ben Tolosa

My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.

~ F.k. Preston

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

~ Sonja Yoerg

Our home is a belonging place.

~ Seth Adam Smith

Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon parents on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.

~ Parul Wadhwa

Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at home.

~ Melanie Conklin

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love, understanding and nurturing. They can connect us with our past and be the ground for the future through our children. They are places where we stand the best chance of being understood for who we truly are, not what we possess or the power we wield. They can give us meaning in life and hope when the outside world fails us and when we fail.

~ Dr Brian Babington

Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can’t say you haven’t got them. Same goes for stories.

~ Diane Setterfield

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

I gladly gave my aunt the privilege of scraping off all gum so my job wasn’t as interesting or horrifying. I did find a few more menu drawings--a baby’s scribble, an elaborate tic-tac-toe board, and some stretched out stick figures that made me miss Addie again.

~ Kate Willis

Later that afternoon the house is quiet, Usha knows that it is a forced and eerie quiet that comes with emptiness rather than with the fullness of serenity.

~ Sharon Duggal

That morning all of us girls had put our hair in high vintage-like ponytails, and Aunt Julie joked that we could almost be triplets. I laughed but knew that since my hair was so straight no one would ever confuse Rose and I.

~ Kate Willis

One night a flock of red-tailed black cockatoos break the quiet as they charge up from the creek, right over the homestead, then down the hill towards Clem's house.'They're my favourite, you know, of all the birds, they're the best,' comes Tom's raspy whisper. 'I know Dad,' says Clem. 'You always say.''They're majestic, dramatic. You wouldn't argue with one.

~ Nicole Sinclair

Large families are communities unto their own.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

~ Glenn Close

Family isn't always who you're born to. It's who you're with, who you love. Those families can even be stronger. - Meira, Frost Like Night

~ Sarah Raasch

It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

~ Unknownwn

A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Looking at the root of a word is much like looking at the roots of a tree. The foundation is important, but even a tree with a strong root can still bear sickly fruit if it is subject to mismanagement

~ Mary Robinette Kowel

Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.

~ Richard L. Ratliff

Mom has reorganized the kitchen so that the one room that was everyone's room is foreign to me. My visits are punctuated with me whipping around, angrily demanding, Where are the forks, WHY DID YOU MOVE THE FORKS? and she has to calmly open the drawer on the other side of the kitchen as if she moved it just to ruin my life. I just found out where she puts the bowls and their new location feels like such a personal attack that I can barely talk about it without raising my blood pressure.

~ Scaachi Koul

Your mother wasn’t upset. “Scars stay with you so you don’t forget,” she said. She seemed almost satisfied.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe

~ Sana Krasikov

It’s truly interesting to observe how genetics works in families, and what a huge lottery it is to inherit some of our relatives’ appearance features.

~ Sahara Sanders

Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

~ Carlos Wallace

Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.

~ Saul Bellow

Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more horses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do, at Upleigh and at Beechwood, with just a cook and a maid, the Sheringhams had owned not just four horses in their own stable, but what might be called a 'real horse', a racehorse, a thoroughbred. Its name was Fandango. It was stabled near Newbury. It had never won a damn thing. But is was the family's indulgence, their hope for fame and glory on the racecourses of southern England. The deal was that Pa and Ma - otherwise known in his strange language as 'the shower' - owned the head and body and he and Dick and Freddy had a leg each.'What about the fourth leg?''Oh the fourth leg. That was always the question.

~ Graham Swift

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

~ Alwyn Hamilton