Family Quotes

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking has switched its grammar. The present continuous is its single operational tense. Uncertainty is our present and our future.

Can't release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn't making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was ride some insane roller coaster at Cedar Point--and now that seemed like no big deal. I'd never been out of the country. Never played with my unborn niece.Never made amends with my parents and sister since our continued fighting began almost eight months earlier.

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from verbal abuse and physical harm. Their children’s rights are somewhat smaller but substantial nonetheless; children can’t have an equal say in decisions because of their limited knowledge and experience, but they do have the right to live free from abuse and fear, to be treated with respect, and to have their voices heard on all issues that concern them.

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.

Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

Terri Haynes Roach

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Homer

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Deschamps

A good friend is my nearest relation.

If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

Florida Scott-Maxwell

My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

Helene Iswolsky

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

Yvonne de Gaulle

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Sis I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?

Anonymous

My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said "Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even."

Anonymous

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

Anonymous

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."

Anonymous

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

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.

Anonymous

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel Montaigne

None but a mule denies his family.

Moroccan proverb

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Mary Karr

Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.

Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

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

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.

Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.

Anonymous

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

Adults are just children who earn money.

Kenneth Branagh

I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.

Anonymous

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