7,080 Quotes About Family

We slept beside them, fought beside them, bled beside them. We trusted them to watch our backs and save our asses – which they did, time and time again. And somewhere out there, between one gig and the next, something changed. We woke up one day and realized that home was no longer behind us. That our families were with us all along. We looked around at these miscreants, these motley crews, and knew in our hearts there was nowhere we’d rather be than by their side.

I don't measure her love in hours spent with me. I measure it in hours spent understanding me.

Wherever there is love, there is life.

When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me.

Cherish Life and all of God's Blessings he sends your way!

Your family will find you, blood or no.

It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

Lambert: "You are a disgrace to the Order, to your family and to the Maker".Evangeline: Of all those things, you're wrong about my family. My father would be proud of what I've done. He always said tyranny was the last resort who have lost the right to lead.

A child just wants to love her parents and to be loved, and it seems like it should be simple to do that, but sometimes it's not.