Love Quotes

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

~ Marge Kennedy

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

~ Patrick Ness

The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and tell them all the crazy things that happened to you all day long, and in the end that’s what it’s about, kids. It’s not about the sex, it’s not about the money that they give you or whatever. It’s not about how good-looking they are, it’s about, can they listen to you talk for hours and hours and hours about stupid shit that doesn't matter.

~ Tegan Quin

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

~ Deb Caletti

It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

~ Peter Abrahams

It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.

~ Jennifer Castle

We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

~ Jessica Spotswood

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

~ Louis Zamperini

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

~ Franny Billingsley

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

~ Gail Tsukiyama

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

~ Jack Layton

There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet--it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and many of us have seen the way a pet can make a family feel whole.

~ Nick Trout

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common past was a wall of indifference between them. Kitty knew too well that she had done nothing to beget her father's affection, he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted, the bread-winner who was a little despised because he could provide no more luxuriously for his family; but she had taken for granted that he loved her just because he was her father, and it was a shock to discover that his heart was empty of feeling for her. She had known that they were all bored by him, but it had never occurred to her that he was equally bored by them. He was as ever kind and subdued, but the sad perspicacity which she had learnt in suffering suggested to her that, though he probably never acknowledged it to himself and never would, in his heart he disliked her.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed

~ Pablo

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

~ Jill Churchill

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

~ Anthony Liccione

Yes, she was a scandal.Her brother simply didn’t know it.“I fell in the Serpentine today.”“Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

~ Sarah Maclean

We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.

~ Steve Kluger

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.

~ Lilli Jolgren Day

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It didn't matter how big our house was, it mattered that there was love in it.

~ Peter Buffett

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

~ David W. Earle

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

~ Yoko Ono

What I love most about my home is who I share it with.

~ Tad Carpenter

Then Henry speaks again. Did he do it?I turn to him slowly. Does it matter?

~ Jodi Picoult

They do not love, that do not show their love.

~ William Shakespeare

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.Is that the first sign of love?You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

~ Alyson Richman

The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.

~ Patricia A. Gozemba

No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the souls of generations we will never have the pleasure of holding in a warm embrace. Life is short people. Before you know it, another decade will pass, people you love will be lost to this world, and all that will be left of them is what we carry in our hearts. 2011

~ E.b. Loan

Our pets are our family.

~ Ana Monnar

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

~ Pete Hamill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

~ T.f. Hodge

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

~ Dena Tyson

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

~ Kathy Magliato

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. (The Higgler)

~ A.e. Coppard