7,080 Quotes About Family

… éramos suficientemente uma família. De dois. O elefante e a formiga. (…) semelhantes por dentro dos medos e dos sonhos, o lado mais difícil de coincidir com alguém.

You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

You bet against your own son?”“Just like you, the boy doesn’t pay attention. And seeing that she’s just like her mother, he didn’t stand a chance against Braith of the Darkness.”“Mum?” Addolgar said to his mother.“Because I love him,” she reminded them all as she’d been doing for centuries. “That’s what I’m doing with your father. I love him. So, honestly—just let it go already.

Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in love with her. He'd always insisted that it was definitely her sass. I knew the truth. He fell for all those things, and when she died, it was like someone had extinguished the sun, and he had nothing left to orbit.