7,080 Quotes About Family

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

The strength was always in you. All you had to do was find it.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

It was a gaze that held the comfort of familiarity. There was no mystery, no enigmatic depth, but unrestrained length, the length of years—the laughter of childhood games and Christmas carols of home— lining its pathways with simple, yet easily overlooked, understanding.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

I do mistakes. You do mistakes. Still we end up with a warm hug. That's you. That's me.

In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I'm still glad they did it though, because I think I might have just died if I had stayed at the coast. Although I ended up there a couple years later, when my mother relapsed on a whim, I think I needed that two years away from that horrible little coastal town where time is frozen and ideas creep forward too slow to notice any progress.