Family Quotes

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

~ Will Advise

I love you is biblical.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

~ David Vann

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

~ Alan Dean Foster

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

~ Angus Mclinn

Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it, which may indeed be forgotten or disdained; but the family is constituted, and ought therefore to be conducted, with the prospect of the rising generation following that which precedes it, not only to the grave, but to eternity(Christopher Anderson). Every member of every household is an immortal creature; every one that leaves the circle by death, goes into an eternity of torment or bliss. And, since all the ordinances of God look to another world as their chief and ultimate reference, surely, surely, that institute which is the most powerful of all in the formation of character, must be considered as set up with a special intention to prepare the subjects of it for glory, honour, immortality, and eternal life.

~ John Angell James

I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.

~ Tsara Shelton

A woman may try to control the man. But God appointed man as the head of the family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.

~ Alexandra Bracken

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

It's funny to think that Christmas — a time known for its joyful togetherness — can be the loneliest time of the year for some.

~ Giovanna Fletcher

It’s fascinating, really, when you think about it. How a person can slip into a new life as one would a new pair of shoes. At first there’s a keen awareness of the fit: a stiffness at the heel, the binding of the width, the curve pressed to the arch. But with time and enough steps, the feel becomes so natural you almost forget you’re wearing them at all.

~ Kristina Mcmorris

A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept.

~ Ellen Hopkins

If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

~ James Lee Schmidt

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

~ Karen Quan

I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

~ Karen Quan

I've often wondered - where do the people who WORK at coffee shops go to meet their friends - Do they go to Conference Rooms? And if they don't meet in conference rooms, I'd like them to know I'd be willing to rent out my grandma's basement.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

~ James Lee Schmidt

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

In the early 1970s, racial and gender discrimination was still prevalent. The easy camaraderie prevailing in the operating room evaporated at the completion of surgical procedures. There was an unspoken pecking order of seating arrangements at lunch among my fellow physicians. At the top were the white male 'primary producers' in prestigious surgical specialties. They were followed by the internists. Next came the general practitioners. Last on the list were the hospital-based physicians: the radiologists, pathologists and anaesthesiologists - especially non-white, female ones like me. Apart from colour, we were shunned because we did not bring in patients ourselves but, like vultures, lived off the patients generated by other doctors. We were also resented because being hospital-based and not having to rent office space or hire nursing staff, we had low overheads. Since a physician's number of admissions to the hospital and referral pattern determined the degree of attention and regard accorded by colleagues, it was safe for our peers to ignore us and target those in position to send over income-producing referrals. This attitude was mirrored from the board of directors all the way down to the orderlies.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

Sister?” Jessie Kay scowled. “Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

~ Gena Showalter

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

~ Patrick Ness

It had been a wake-up call and now all she wanted was to keep her dad in sight and make sure he didn't eat too many Mars Bars or drink too much beer.

~ Vicky Pattison

It wasn't normal, it was quite far from normal, but they were hers and she loved everything about them.

~ Vicky Pattison

The heart in every human is the sacred love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Does anybody remember the day when family was family, a woman was a woman, and a man was a man?

~ Delano Johnson

Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.

~ Kasey Michaels

Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

~ Matt Haig

If we wish to have a beautiful, peaceful and safe home, we need healthy expanding roots that go deep into the ground. These roots are our Routine, our Stability, our Structure.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

But being a brother or a sister (if you are lucky enough) is the role of a lifetime.

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

~ Pablo Escobar

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.

~ John Irving

If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left it to Teddy, and so it had zigzagged its way down the family tree......The clock was a good one, made by Frodsham and worth quite a bit, but Teddy knew if he gave it to Viola she would sell it or misplace it or break it and it seemed important to him that it stayed in the family. An heirloom. ('Lovely word,' Bertie said.) He liked to think that the little golden key that wound it, a key that would almost certainly be lost by Viola, would continue to be turned by the hand of someone who was part of the family, part of his blood. The red thread.

~ Kate Atkinson

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

~ Erin Pizzey

For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.

~ Non Pratt

The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone....you can choose your family.

~ Jennifer Lopez