7,080 Quotes About Family

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days to spend under our parents' roof;Myself, my sister, and my brother.All five of us will die; to reckon from the pastThis flesh and blood is unforgiving.What's hard is that just one of us will be the lastTo bear it all and go on living.

Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.

I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

Les personnages savaient peut-être, sur un certain plan de conscience, que le scénario était toujours le même. Pourtant, invariablement et malgré la violence des sentiments, chacun jouait son rôle, parce que c'était son rôle à jouer.

Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.

Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all.

Some people get a lot of pleasure from sharing their success with those who were adamant that they would not or would never succeed, but get very little or even no pleasure from sharing their success with those who have supported them.