Family Quotes - Page 5

Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.