Family Quotes

Family is where the Heart is!

~ Anuranjita Kumar

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

~ Emma Straub

But books were full of stories and stories were full of lies and lies hurt Jesus's feelings, so I didn't know what to think. I blamed my family. They were the ones who taught me so much about telling stories, and how not to do it, and then, in inspired moments of surprise, how to tell one so good you forgot what day it was, and I liked forgetting what day it was, so I made certain life choices that would allow me to get paid to forget what day it was and teach others to forget what day it was, which is, after all, what I think heaven probably is: the whole world, forgetting what day it is. You have to, I bet, with an endless supply of them.

~ Harrison Scott Key

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I get to see her at night.No deal.That's the only deal. I sleep over.She's my daughter.She's the love of my life. My heart was pumping so damn fast I needed to see her. David was searching my eyes.I let him see the truth. I needed her. That was the only way.Fine, but only you. Logan can't start sleeping over, too.He'll try.David groaned. You two, you just storm your way in-We're family to her. We took her in when you let her go. We protected her from that woman.

~ Tijan

But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.

~ Rick Riordan

Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.

~ Celeste Ng

But Mrs. Meany, see, the women went on, leaning forward, despite how her heart was broken, pulled herself together, anyway, to put on a good face for the rest of the family at home. And she went back, Sunday after Sunday, right up until the Sunday before she died. Mrs. Meany put her beautiful love - a mother's love - against the terrible scenes that brewed like sewage in that poor girl's troubled mind. She persevered, she baked her cakes, she hauled herself (the goiter swinging) on and off the ferry, and she sat, brokenhearted, holding her daughter's hand, even as Lucy shouted her terrible words, proving to anyone with eyes to see that a mother's love was a beautiful, light, relentless thing that the devil could not diminish.

~ Alice Mcdermott

In every voyage, be fully present.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

~ Paula Hawkins

Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

You should always be thankful and express gratitude for your love, beauty, family, and everything in your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Family is never really gone.

~ Beth Revis

Having been fucked up by my family and community, I’ll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and “neurosis” begins. But as a gay person I know I’m a vital element in our civilization.

~ Edward Field

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

~ Mary Oliver

Family was very important to us. It was one of the only things we had, and what kept up grounded. Some of the best times we had were the times when we were all together. It didn't matter what we were doing. During the holidays or just on a weekend afternoon, the whole point was just being together. There doesn't seem to be as much of that going on today. People are so busy. But family is everything.

~ Clara Cannucciari

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt Tomey's Turl, old Carother McCaslin's son, and Tennie Beauchamp, whom Edmonds' great-uncle Amodeus McCaslin won from a neighbor in a poker game in 1859. . .But James, the eldest, ran away before he became of age and didn't stop until he had crossed the Ohio River and they never heard from or of him again at all––that is, that his white kindred ever knew. It was as though he had not only. . .put running water between himself and the land of his grandmother's betrayal and his father's nameless birth, but he had interposed latitude and geography too, shaking from his feet forever the very dust of the land where his white ancestor could acknowledge or repudiate him from one day to another, according to his whim, but where he dared not even repudiate the white ancestor save when it met the white man's humor of the moment.

~ William Faulkner

We are one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of our age is the subsiding of all other concerns to the predominance of politics. And thus, we have succumbed to a Lyndon Johnson-like dependence upon the power of the state.The tragic result has been that all of life has been politicized, and if the new social engineers have their way, politics will increase in power - especially in its power to penetrate into our everyday lives and rule our destinies. For in fact politics has become, for many of the political elite, a kind of state religion.

~ George Grant

For all the things we do in our lives and the people that surround us, its family and those few loyal friends that God has blessed us with.

~ Ron Baratono

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

~ Agona Apell

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand,from the spine of their collective strength.

~ Jerrold Yam

If in poetry court she was calledto testify on matters whereI was condemned to imprisonment: parking my egoat a broken meter, line violations, forced rhyme,dealing stanzaics to children, shootingoff my mouth, getting cute, for even thislatest attempt at verse, she would tell the whole truth,she would admit from the pitof her unsung brilliance,from all of the paintings and poemsshe herself has been makingand storing in the vast empire of her singing soul, your Honor, my daughter is guiltyof plagiarizing my cells.

~ Kristen Henderson

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Life’s short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

~ Scott Thompson

I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond

~ Carolyn Jessop

You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

~ Kim Boykin

Since our yesterdays are gone and our tomorrows are never promised, TODAY I want to thank all my amazing friends and family for being in my life.

~ Steven Aitchison

But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find.

~ David Levithan

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My grandfather will adore you.Because...?You're not normal.I see we're back to trading insults.I meant that as a compliment.

~ Jen Turano

Do not go gentle into that good night.

~ Dylan Thomas

He took my family,” Adamat said. “Blackmailed me, and he still has my wife and oldest son. I want to get them back, and then kill him slowly.”“A lot of violence planned, for a family man,” the eunuch said.Adamat leaned forward. “‘Family,’” he said. “Remember that word. There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.

~ Brian Mcclellan

Reflections they give meThat my mirror does notThey know the new meNot the old meThat I am not

~ Kathleen Marie

Gifts are not things that you earn or deserve they are a way for the giver to show their appreciation for you and Daren, you are a part of my family

~ Chelsea Fine

If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This ties him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free.

~ Henry Cloud

On the road to success there are determination, real hard work, perseverance and challenges to tackle.

~ Ahmet Adam Asar

Appreciate what is in front of you, cherish your family and friends. tell them you love them each and every day! Remember, it can all change in the blink of an eye. Live without regret!

~ Karen Gibbs