471 Quotes About Families

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.

My mother sobbed. "I'm not asking for that much." But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

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

In that household, Todd’s flagrant self-expression became the clarity against which dark shades were necessary.

The cold war of nature clashes of two people can take away all the peace of two families. BEWARE

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

It can be disconcerting when people around us change. Family members and especially parents frequently resist acknowledging transformation in other family members. Depending upon the nature of the personality modification, they might even resent if it a family member changes as any fundamental personality revision by a member of a family alters the group’s identity as well.