7,080 Quotes About Family

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.

She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. "It's going to be so boring here without you. And I'm going to have to deal with Grandmother on my own! You need to e-mail, text, call, send smoke signals--whatever--and tell me everything you're doing."I laughed. "Yes, I know. Every day. I promise.

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.