Family Quotes
Deb Caletti
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
2120 Ann Brashares
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
4910 Ellen DeGeneres
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
2432 M.D. Birmingham
The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
2612 Bobbi Kay
I write to get ideas out of my head
4124 Elizabeth Haydon
I had always thought of home not as a house, or even a place, but a feeling of safety and acceptance, a warm light when the rest of the world was a dark, forbidding place.
Whenever my family was around, wherever we were, I felt like I was home.
2546 Sara Sheridan
At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
1389 Lailah Gifty Akita
We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.
3086 Kristin Hannah
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
1668 Melina Marchetta
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
3829 Stieg Larsson
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
2468 George Burns
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
1449 Jay McInerney
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
3577 George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
2448 Erma Bombeck
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
1231 Derek Landy
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.
1378 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Dakota Dawn
Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.
1568 Norlito Baclayen
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.
3786 Zack Love
It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.
1324 Benjamin J. Carey
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
2587 Mollie Marti
With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.
3766 Paul Pearsall
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
2555 Rabih Alameddine
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
2902 Michael Palin
I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.
3823 Rebecca McNutt
People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.
2900 Rodney Barnes
My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury
2289 Crystal Woods
At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.
4027 A.P. Jensen
We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.
1979 Anthony Liccione
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
3639 Elizabeth George
Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.
4254 Elizabeth George
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
1688 Ogwo David Emenike
80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.
4957 M.G. Wells
Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless
1905 Nathalie M. Leblanc
You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!
3343 Brook Tesla
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
1557 Kelly Risser
She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.
4111 Ram Mohan
Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.
3406 Virchand Gandhi
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
4510 Mother Teresa
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
4625 Louis Zamperini
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
1929 Gordon B. Hinckley
work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.
1643 Rabih Alameddine
By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
4328 Aoboshi Kimama
I'm going to be a person who writes stories.
I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.
I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.
1735 Delano Johnson
I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things.
3462 Esther Earl
Just be happy. And if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.
4831 Elizabeth George
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.
1708 James A. Murphy
Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!
4887 Diogo Mainardi
When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel.
That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel.
Tito's birth changed all that.
4349 Lauren Gilley
You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.
4595 Julene Bair
And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives that gave us life and others that gave our lives meaning have ended.
3531 Gary Shteyngart
The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.
3059 Brandi L. Bates
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
3456 Jim George
Your impact on the lives of others-your family, the people at your church, your workmates-is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.
2616 E.A. Bucchianeri
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
4486 Ruth McLeod-Kearns
The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.
2326 Philip Green
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
2195 Jonathan Anthony Burkett
We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.
2694 Wendelin Van Draanen
Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
2093 Julia Marriott
All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.
1936 Doug Solter
I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.
1238 Melanie Finn
Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off.
1991 E.B. White
When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
3873 Mitch Albom
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
4640 Veronica Roth
I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response.
He frowns at me. "Say it again."
"Tobias," I say, "I love you.
2210 Jodi Picoult
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
3528 Leigh Hunt
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
1445 Tori Spelling
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
4626 Alice Hoffman
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
4387 Thornton Wilder
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
3188 Haniel Long
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
1011 Veronica Roth
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
4539 Lindsey Kelk
If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do
3744 J.K. Rowling
Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.
2897 Sam Levenson
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
3462 Matt Groening
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
1648 Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
4574 George Carlin
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
2017 Stephen King
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
4969 Mary Karr
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
1671 Stephen Colbert
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
2312 Gail Carriger
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
1789 Mitch Albom
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
3364 Angela Schwindt
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
4275 Louis C.K.
Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.
3791 Laurell K. Hamilton
The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.
4091 Tori Spelling
We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
3103 Maya Angelou
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
1469 Alice Sebold
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
4966 Mitch Albom
There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
3086 Mitch Albom
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
4610 Toni Sorenson
Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free.
4317 Maverick Hill
It's not about saying your sorry, or expecting me to forgive you. It's about showing love and respect to the people in your life each day you get to breathe. It's about taking responsibility for your decisions, honoring your commitments, and not fucking up in the first place.
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