Family Quotes

How did your mother die?” asked Delk.“Car accident,” Katie replied, gazing out over the water. “She’d been to mass. A tire blew on the way home, and she was gone. I was nineteen, Pather’s age, when it happened. My brother was only eleven.” She paused. “I do know what you’re going through.” Katie looked at her.“Pather told you?” Katie nodded. Delk was glad Pather had told his sister; she was relieved not to have to tell the story again. “Does it ever . . . you know . . . get any better?”Katie shrugged her narrow shoulders and smiled. “In some ways it does, but it’s a bit like running a long race with a rock in your shoe. You get used to it, but it always hurts a little.

~ Suzanne Supplee

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

~ Sage Steadman

We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow--the surest antidote for despair? It may be a rough comforter: it may seem hard to be harassed with the cares of life when we have no relish for its enjoyments; to be goaded to labor when the heart is ready to break, and the vexed spirit implores for rest only to weep in silence: but is not labor better than the rest we covet? and are not those petty, tormenting cares less hurtful than a continual brooding over the great affliction that oppresses us? Besides, we cannot have cares, and anxieties, and toil, without hope--if it be but the hope of fulfilling our joyless task, accomplishing some needful project, or escaping some further annoyance.

~ Anne Brontë

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

~ Kate Mosse

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.

~ Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are god's apology for relations. (p. 129)

~ Christopher Hitchens

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians.

~ Ernest Hemingway

s father's words. But they are as empty on his lips as they feel in my ears. This was has taken everything from him. I see in his eyes how broken he is. how terribly hard he is trying to be his father's son. If he could, he would choose to be back by the campfire we made in the highlands of the Institute. He would return to the days of glory when life was simple, when friends seemed true. But wishing for the past doesn't clean the blood from either of our hands.

~ Pierce Brown

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

~ Lionel Shriver

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

~ Suzy Kassem

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

~ Billy Ray Chitwood

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements.

~ Mohith Agadi

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

~ Amit Kalantri

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

~ Amit Kalantri

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

~ Amit Kalantri

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

~ Amit Kalantri

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

~ Amit Kalantri

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

~ Amit Kalantri

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society

~ Amit Kalantri

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

~ Amit Kalantri

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

~ Amit Kalantri

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation

~ Vivian Amis

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

~ Philip Larkin

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

~ Lisa Wingate

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

~ Bernard Branson

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

~ V.c. Andrews

And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt.She smiled, though it hurt tremendously to do so, thinking how blessed she had been to have spent twelve years with the most precious gifts from God. She felt honored that they called her mother. She knew she had done the best she could teaching them about life and love, faith and family. Margo lay slowly dying from the wounds inflicted by a monster, but she was at peace. Because though the devil meant it for evil, God turned it to good.

~ Karen Luellen

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

~ Ricky Maye

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us.—Brighton Hayes

~ Kelli Mccracken