Family Quotes

A rubber plant is just about the ideal family.

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regulari...

So what do we do?""We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my ...

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family....

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a...

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the ...

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong s...

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heaven...

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the titl...

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to lear...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Family is what works.

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam...

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary lif...

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of mo...

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family...

One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an...

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of...

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

The Death Eaters were waiting for us,” Harry told her. “We were surrounded the moment we took off — ...

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...

Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!”“An excellen...

Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were ...

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be...

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding."T...

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't...

I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ...

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harr...

Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, y...

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing...

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

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has t...

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by ...

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again,...

I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast o...

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you as...

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And th...

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend...

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class ...

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and c...

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individua...

There are secrets in all families, you know.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some ...

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some ...

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection wou...

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons...

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g...

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered...

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused chi...

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to w...

In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" a...

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they...

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smel...

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the...

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it...

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there...

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don...

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter h...

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know...

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does ...

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by...

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family...

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradiva...

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family....

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture...

I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ...

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it'...

Of course the activists—not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revol...

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all ...

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Every...

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

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being ...

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a...

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had be...

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth...

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking t...

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick e...

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't fee...