7,080 Quotes About Family

Home is a place where all things happen with everyone's approval.

You hear of single-parent families where one of the partners isn’t around for some reason, but as far as I know, no one has invented a word for the sole remaining member of a family where fifty per cent of the parents and a hundred per cent of the kids are living in the future.

That’s the best part of having siblings,” I laugh. “Half the time, you want to kill each other, but you’d kill for each other, too.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

As mortals called on God, on angels and saints, as they chanted while telling their rosary, Raphael was pronouncing the only names that were sacred to him and would not burn his tongue to utter. Raphael was calling on his family.

I’ve also been responsible for investigating plenty of strange stories. I intend to approach yours the same way I approached those — with an assumption that it represents reality until proven otherwise

There’s a painful, uncanny irony that, in the name of familial love and loyalty, child sexual abuse survivors are overtly and covertly encouraged to remain silent. Family members and other caregivers will go to great lengths to deny, discredit, muzzle, medicate, or institutionalize the silence breakers. This must change. We need models of “love with accountability.

The Canadian tradition was, she had found, on the whole genteel. Any evidence that an ancestor had performed any acts other than working and praying was usually destroyed. Families handily became respectable in retrospect but it was...hell on history.

And we protect The Pack from the hunters, we will fall in love with each moment, singing to the moon that has loved us since we were stars.