7,080 Quotes About Family

Every person has a limited amount of time on this Earth, but it can be easy to forget that fact when one is busy pursuing lofty academic truths. You can spend your whole life chasing knowledge and turn around and find that you have missed out on many important moments in your loved ones’ lives.

Sometimes the most wonderful gift you can give is a prayer for the health, happiness and well-being of a person's entire family. There’s not gift to unwrap, this person has already opened up their heart to you.

The prevalence and apparent sameness of the nuclear family hides the qualitative differences between working-class and capitalist families, the different social relations of reproduction within the working class and, consequently, the differences in the sources of male power and in the forms or kinds of oppressions shaping the lives of capitalist and working-class women.

In kindergarten they drill it into your head: NEVER GET IN A CAR WITH SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW. But what they don't say is how you can live in the same house as someone and still be total strangers.

You might assume my father is a Republican because he's so old-fashioned. But actually he's a Democrat. In the South, the difference is that Democrats go bird hunting while Republicans go deer hunting.

Home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother's bones lay sleeping.

Our family was stuck in a cosmic hamster wheel of toxic love, making the same mistakes, saying the same words, being hurt in the same ways generation after generation. I didn’t want to keep playing a role in this tragedy of errors.

The eldest child is the golden one, the middle child invisible, and the youngest child is loud.

I’d leave this house the first chance I got, but not by chasing after a boy, including my brother. I’d do it on my own terms, following my dreams, not someone else’s.