7,080 Quotes About Family

One aspect of family was parting. Family is not necessarily where one is, but where one returns, given the chance.

During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close.

Welcome to life in a small town. You’re only as good as the best thing your family’s done. Or the worst.

It's amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.

As if tears were the necessary lubricant without which the machine of mutual communication could not work successfully, the two sisters, after these tears, started talking, not about what preoccupied them , but about unrelated things, and yet they understood eachother.

Did the women feel like I was deserting them by deciding to live as the other gender? Maybe for Dad and Charlie, it didn't seem strange to want to be male, since that's what they were. But Mom and Laura—and, of course, Eve—acted like I was betraying them somehow. Would I have to give them up if I wasn't a girl anymore? I hoped not. I hoped that changing my gender wouldn't mean losing my entire past.

She's wrong that I can have anything I want whenever I want it.""What do you want that you don't have?" I asked."A mother, for starters.

It’s about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don’t.

Pain can make us lash out in unexpected ways.Pain can make us hurt those we care about.Pain can build walls between two human souls.