7,080 Quotes About Family

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.