7,080 Quotes About Family

Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing person;One of the very best.You were here for part of my story;I wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile most;The smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Your father you esteem.Your mother you pamper.Your relatives you regard.Your friends you value.Your neighbors you respect.Your enemies you pardon.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.

It's hard when you're missing your family," Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.