7,080 Quotes About Family

You only appreciate how difficult it is to raise a child once you have done it.

Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you.

Evie was still crying and so didn't know what Sam whispered to Theta over the top of her head. She only knew that now there were two sets of arms around her, holding her close, holding her up. She only knew that she had family after all.

You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.

The years will allow them to meet in the middle, when the boys thoughts expand and grandpa’s contract.

There comes a time when we have to accept that people make their own choices, and we’re not responsible for those choices, even if they’re our family.

Working to restore our voice with members of our first family can be a terrific learning experience. We didn't choose these difficult folks, but, as adults, how we talk to them is up to us. Observing and changing our part in family conversations is one royal road to change. In other words, if you can learn to speak clearly and to respond in a new way with your difficult mother or sister, then other relationships will be a piece of cake.

Those people who are supposed to be the closest to you are not always that close.

So, how's your family?I could say we've grown more comfortable with peace than joy, patience over hope, and perseverance feels the same as love.I could say happy families are supposed to be all alike, but eve the happiest, after forty years, probably has some reckoning to do.