Family Quotes

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.

~ Erin Merryn

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.

~ Gayle Forman

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

~ G.k. Chesterton

You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family be ten people, or twenty people, or a million people. Dinnertime is the perfect time for that. Dinnertime is the perfect time when you can sit down, you can offer thanks to your kids for making you laugh, or to your parents for supporting you, or to a god for looking out for you, or to whomever you want. You can just close your eyes and open them again and realize that you have the opportunity everyday to change your life, or change someone else’s. Dinnertime is a great time to think about that. ~ Dillon, age 22 From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012

~ Deborah L. Halliday

Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.

~ Amy Kaufman Burk

you don't turn your back on family, even when they do.

~ Aboubakar Msangi

Adoption is grief in reverse.

~ Jody Cantrell Dyer

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

~ Neil Gaiman

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

~ Liz Rosenberg

Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.

~ William Paul Young

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

~ John Gray

Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.

~ Jennifer Weiner

Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.

~ Diana Gabaldon

A family is like medicine. She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. Best in small doses.

~ Alexandra Ivy

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there’s a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.

~ Ben Fountain

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

~ Jim George

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

~ Jim George

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

~ Lori Copeland

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.

~ Sarah Dessen

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the flesh and brutal torture. Throughout the meal, I had the sense that their dining room table was as long as a railway station. They would be eating and talking about something way down at the other end, and I was too far away for them to see. This went on for a year, until Kumiko's father and I had a violent argument, after which we never saw each other again. The relief this gave me bordered on ecstasy. Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.

~ Haruki Murakami

Her youngest daughter shrugged. “Ain’t got no money, do we?” “I don’t understand. Why aren’t you pillaging like the rest of your kin?” “It was the Northlands, Da. Ain’t nothin’ to pillage but the crows in the trees.” “And snow,” their eldest added. “Lots and lots of snow.” Bram motioned to his study. “You know where I keep the gold coin.” As if on fire, their offspring made a desperate run for their father’s study, climbing over the table and fighting each other through the door. It wasn’t pretty.

~ G.a. Aiken

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.

~ Abraham Kuyper

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

~ Erin Merryn

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

~ Fran Elizabeth Grubb

The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita’s fierce loyalty to blood. But what really binds people as family? The way they shore themselves up with stories; the way siblings can feud bitterly but still come through for each other; how an untimely death, a child gone before a parent, shakes the very foundations; how the weaker ones, the ones with invisible wounds, are sheltered; how a constant din is medicine against loneliness; and how celebrating the same occasions year after year steels us to the changes they herald. And always food at the center of it all.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

~ Old Saying

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

~ Brendan Behan

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

~ Charles Darwin

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

~ Leon R. Yankwich

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

~ Randall Jarrell

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

~ Josh Billings

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

~ John Lennon

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

~ Joe Cook

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

~ Jane Austen