7,080 Quotes About Family

Not his real home, his real home, the one he never named any more, was the dark and sooty chamber in his heart that contained his sister and his brother and, because it was an accommodating kind of space, the entire filthy history of the industrial revolution.

It is the height of human happiness to have somebody to love. Our agony is that we have all the light and the paint but no canvas to put the art of our hearts on.

Dr. Patrick F. Fagan wrote: “The indispensable building block upon which the fortunes of the economy depends [is] the married-parent household—especially the child-rich family that worships weekly. …Every marriage creates a new household, an independent economic unit that generates income, spends, saves, and invests.

...aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

Trevor, make sure your woman is the woman in your life. Don't be one of those men who makes his wife compete with his mother. A man with a wife cannot be beholden to his mother.

A friend forgives quicker than enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend.

So liebesüberströmt, so kussüberfallen wie Mia, Franz und Henri neben Dir aufwachen, können sie keinen Schaden nehmen. Das ist nicht möglich. Wenn doch, nur den üblichen kleinen Schaden. Den alle Menschen nehmen.

I don't care about relevance. I care about family. There are things you do for the people who did them for you.

... alles wäre sauber und still, leer und kinderlärmfrei gewesen. Aber willst du mit vierzig, mit fünfzig noch so leben? hat Simon gefragt, und ich habe nichts geantwortet. Ja, vielleicht will ich.