Family Quotes

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

~ Stephen Chbosky

In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another half anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sandals that crowded the entrance to everyone's home; in the kisses we gave when we greeted one another and said good-bye; in the graceful choreography of Grandma hanging the laundry on the clothesline; in the inclusiveness of calling anyone older auntie or uncle whether or not they were relatives.

~ Janet Mock

Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

~ David W. Earle

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

~ David W. Earle

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

~ David W. Earle

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

~ Kat Kaelin

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did, often were blood related and moved from place to place in clans strengthened by civic and ecclesiastical covenants.

~ Edward Pearson

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings.

~ Jennifer Mcmahon

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

~ Erika Tamar

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

~ David W. Earle

Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.

~ David W. Earle

He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an old age, but as he spread ink on paper, transmitted and shared with those who came after him his experiences, his own great adventures, he believed perhaps they, like he, would give way to pause to reflect on how...hard it always was to open his eyes to begin a new day...

~ Andrew Coster

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?

~ Shannon L. Alder

All roads out of hell lead home.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

~ Abiola Abrams

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

~ Emm Cole

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

~ Kat Kaelin

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.

~ Dorothea Benton Frank

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

~ Melina Marchetta

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Whatever happens, happens for the best.' That's how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family. Everyone in every family has an inner psychiatrist who rises to the occasion with some home-made mottos, a few lines from Jagjit Singh ghazal. An older generation may quote Tukaram but underlying all this is the bedrock phase: Whatever happens, happens for the best.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

~ Cammy

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

~ Marcel Proust

Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party.

~ Kat Kaelin

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

~ Ruth Park

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

~ Laura Dave

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something?

~ Dorothea Benton Frank

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. _Mark Twain (Author)

~ Kat Kaelin

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

~ Elizabeth George

I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was perfect—but, I was his daughter and I was neither of those things. I worked hard to get my grades, and I tried so hard to meet his expectations, but I failed. Over and over again, I fell short. I didn't measure up. That feeling never faded.

~ H.m. Ward

I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

~ H.m. Ward

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

~ Rabbi Shaul David Judelman

The two of us sat back down in the swing and continued sitting side-by-side the first Day of June; moving to-and-fro in the swing on the front porch. A soothing summer breeze caught a ride on the south wind and blew across our faces. I enjoyed endless days and nights sitting, sighing, lying, walking, and talking alongside my best friend... Lone Walk From Panther Creek

~ Kat Kaelin

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remained connected like the icing on one of those made from scratch cakes...

~ Kat Kaelin

You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

~ Laura Dave

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

~ Samuel E. Waldron

God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

~ Elizabeth George

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

June is gazing at Michael with a glow about her face, a well of feeling for her husband. Leo and Stephen are also looking at their father, Leo's expression sympathetic, nearly teary. The three of them as they look at Michael are like magnets, the ties drawing each one to him nearly visible. This is what family means, Nora thinks.

~ Maya Lang