7,080 Quotes About Family

Though it was hardly a shock to him, because Father knew well by my sixteenth birthday how unpredictably erratic my temperament had become. His sweet Robert had died many years ago, along with his mother, and was replaced by this wicked little changeling who didn't ever care to temper his tongue. I had earned many a rival, enemy and smack upside the head for the mischievous things I said and did.

When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned from your Grandmother Henderson in Arkansas and what you have learned from me, you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don’t let anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will always have to make adaptations, in love relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don’t let anybody change your mind. And then remember this: You can always come home.

When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence.

Any person who treats you kind and loves you unreservedly, is more than a friend.They are family!

In order to have a family life and a career, women must move twice as fast to arrive at the same place. Rather than being assisted with this unlikely feat--say, via paid parental leave, accelerator programs at work, or partners willing to sideline their own careers for a few years--women are scolded, told they should have found a boyfriend in college, had a baby by twenty-seven.

What condition?’‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’‘Ah.’ If there was one thing which every policeman knew it was that families were bad for every medical condition, but especially for heart ones. Legs were less important.

All who love God must love their brothers or sisters also.

You're not talking to her, Maggie Jones said. You and Raymond don't talk like you should to that girl. Women want to hear some conversation in the evening. We don't think that's too much to ask. We're willing to put up with a lot from you men, but in the evening we want to hear some talking. We want to have a little conversation in the house.

His mind betrayed him and now we were all victims of the horrible deception.