7,080 Quotes About Family

CHRISTMAS EVE: There’s a fire blazing in the fireplace, food enough for five thousand, and a new TV as big as Wyoming tuned to a football game no one cares about.

Everyone knows how to make a baby, but no one knows how to make a papa.

Brotherly love is the bond of faith.

Brotherly love builds family of faith.

I find it fascinating that in all our exploring of the world's nooks and crannies, my three kids most loved the times we settled down and stayed somewhere awhile.

A memory is a ledge on the mountainside of the mind; there we are, drinking and chatting, and on the ledge below us my dad sits in his chair, dead, his face smeared with blood.

Once a mother is born, she remains a mother forever.

When a heart hears - and believes, or half believes - that it is not the child of God by origin, from the first of its being, but may possibly be adopted into His family, its love sinks at once in a cold faint: where is its own father, and who is this that would adopt it?

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.