Family Quotes

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

~ Ruth Ahmed

When I was younger, I thought my task was to forge ahead and succeed as an individual. But growing older has helped me realize that our success lies in our relationships— with the family we are born into, the friends we make, the people we fall in love with, and the children we have. Sometimes we struggle, sometimes we adapt, and at other times we set a course for others to follow. We are all leaders and followers in our lives. We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most.

~ Caroline Kennedy

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

~ Ji-Li Jiang

Just continue to walk in the light you have been given, and leave the future in God's hands. If He is calling you to do a job, He will make it possible for you to care for your family and overcome any other barriers to that responsibility.

~ James C. Dobson

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days to spend under our parents' roof;Myself, my sister, and my brother.All five of us will die; to reckon from the pastThis flesh and blood is unforgiving.What's hard is that just one of us will be the lastTo bear it all and go on living.

~ Vikram Seth

Heavenly blessings are life, grace, hope, faith, love, inner peace, nature, family, friends….!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We need a mass of ancestors at our backs like a balast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past.

~ Lauren Groff

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

~ Nancy Samalin

In Nita's experience, the best intelligence officers in any big family were found among the younger siblings. They began their careers while small, nonthreatening, and unobtrusive. By adolescence, they developed formidable powers of observation and recollection, to say nothing of an ability to lurk at keyholes and befriend the servants.

~ Grace Burrowes

Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.

~ Ruth Ahmed

A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated

~ Viola Shipman

Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn't love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.

~ Beth Moore

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past. And the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

~ Baz Luhrmann

I hear my family's voices in the jangling of my charms.

~ Viola Shipman

The Kite CharmFor A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child

~ Viola Shipman

The Sewing Machine CharmTo A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together

~ Viola Shipman

Every day, they gave him new reasons to smile, laugh, worry, and wonder.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar

~ Viola Shipman

Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose.

~ Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller.--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

~ Tamara Valentine

Look, my son, she is so beautiful, she has fair skin and green eyes and brown hair.''She's English?' I asked cheekily, holding the cheap photo print with trepidation. Which unfortunate victim had they found for me to marry in what backwater, unbeknownst that my heart was not for trading? Honour would quote Shakespeare to make a point; for me, it was always Rumi.'La hawla wala kuwwat... May God protect us from such misfortune... you think I have lost my senses that I would marry you to a white girl?' My mum used the word gori as an insult and yet when she talked about Billo she said 'Look how gori she is.'Oh, Mum, the irony.'Well, you seem pretty obsessed with green eyes and skin colour,' I mumbled.'She is gorgeous.' Mum went on ignoring me. 'Think how beautiful your children, my grandchildren, will be? They will have cats' eyes, just like Billo.'Honour has fair skin and green eyes too, and just think how beautiful your grandchildren will be if they're mixed race, I thought.I didn't say that to my mum, obviously.

~ Ruth Ahmed

You feel well, Ali? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta,' my dad said. 'Like you have left your heart behind.'He fixed me with eyes as liquid black as mine and for a moment I felt exposed, like he could see right through me. That irrational childhood thought that he could read my mind maybe.'What nonsense, his heart is here with his mother and his family. Tell him, Ali,' my mother said.'Begum, this generation of boys and girls, you know how they are.' My dad never said my mother's name; she was always Begum, the generic term for 'wife'.

~ Ruth Ahmed

I contemplated the phone for some time. Never had I heard her so oddly gay and forthright; as a matter of fact, we hadn't discussed sex since adolescence. Her entire inner life was secretive and mysterious, and no one dared violate it. She sent out powerful No Trespassing signals and I had learned to honor them. It crossed my mind that my sister was drunk.

~ Brooke Hayward

There was something about him that had always rubbed her the wrong way. Before her mother’s death, she [Shiara] could remember her saying that he was a nice enough young man, but not the one for her daughter.

~ J.c. Morrows

We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.

~ Bell Hooks

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.

~ Mike Heil

I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

~ D.j. Maclennan

The ones you least expect earn the greatest respect.

~ Muqundi Lesli Mbozha

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

~ Ruta Sepetys

My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird. Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.

~ V.e. Schwab

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.

~ Nayomi Munaweera

In Sri Lanka, when two strangers meet, they ask a series of questions that reveal family, ancestral village, and blood ties until they arrive at a common friend or relative. Then they say, Those are our people, so you are our people. It's a small place. Everyone knows everyone.But in America, there are no such namings; it is possible to slip and slide here. It is possible to get lost in the nameless multitudes. There are no ropes binding one, holding one to the earth. Unbound by place or name, one is aware that it is possible to drift out into the atmosphere and beyond that, into the solitary darkness where there is no oxygen.

~ Nayomi Munaweera

I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing.

~ Bob Dylan

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Dad, despite the fact you can be a right grumpy bastard, I’m so incredibly grateful to have you in my life.

~ K.a. Hill

As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you

~ Nash

If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!

~ Lindsey Rietzsch