Family Quotes

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

~ Sarah Dessen

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

~ Mother Teresa

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

~ Kristin Hannah

Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.

~ Pierce Brown

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

~ E.l. James

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.

~ Andrea Lavinthal

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

~ Arundhati Roy

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

~ Edith Wharton

Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?

~ David Sedaris

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

~ Mario Puzo

I'll love you forever,I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

~ Robert Munsch

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

~ Sherman Alexie

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

~ George R.r. Martin

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

~ Cassandra Clare

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.

~ Whitney Otto

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

~ Claire Lazebnik

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,then from my eyes,my ears,my mouth.It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

~ E. Lockhart

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.

~ Rick Riordan

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

~ Susanna Kaysen

He’s my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future

~ Simone Elkeles

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

~ Mitch Albom

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.

~ Thomas S. Monson

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

~ Jim Butcher

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

~ Erma Bombeck

True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one another because of the fact of that no matter if it’s two males or females love should always be there as if brothers or sisters if their what we call best friends.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

~ Mother Teresa

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, We're pregnant. I want to go around the neighborhood saying, We're depressed. If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

~ Melina Marchetta

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

~ Louise Erdrich

I always hear people talk about 'dysfunctional families.' It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there's this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams things they don't mean, and there's never a time when sharp objects should be hidden. Well, I'm sorry, but that family doesn't exist. And if you find some neighbors that seem to be the grinning model of 'function,' trust me - that's the family that will get arrested for smuggling arms in their SUV between soccer games.The best you can really hope for is a family where everyone's problems, big and small, work together. Kind of like an orchestra where every instrument is out of tune, in exactly the same way, so you don't really notice.

~ Neal Shusterman

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

~ August Wilson

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, and his hair was very untidy. It stuck up at the back, just like Harry's did.Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.Mum? he whispered. Dad?They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees -- Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life.The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

~ J.k. Rowling

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

~ Veronica Roth

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.

~ Rick Riordan

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

~ Mindy Kaling

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

~ Robert Frost

I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’ ‘Now I can’t tell if you’re joking.’ Hades’s eyes glittered as his form began to fade. ‘Then perhaps we are alike in some important ways.’ The god vanished.

~ Rick Riordan

So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.“Yeah.”“The one you risked your life for?”“Yeah.”The twins nod politely in that automatic way that people do when they don’t want to say something insulting.“Your family any better?” I ask.Dee and Dum look at each other, assessing.“Nah,” says Dee.“Not really,” says Dum at the same time.

~ Susan Ee