Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won’t march into a bin with the snap of my fingers.

She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like...

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly...

In WASP families, if you don’t get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

Akili yako isipokuwa timamu, familia itakushinda. Familia ikikushinda utalaumiwa na Mwenyezi Mungu.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

I think what a family is shouldn’t be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.

It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don’t see that life is what’s important. Love, friendship, trust, respect, a daily routine, someone to grow old with,...

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,–“blind as a bat,” for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat,...

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers’ laps. (The Pinata-Maker’s Daughter)

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents’ names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like...

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I...

Family, friends, music, love…are sweeteners that garnish and eases the stress of life

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even...

All across the world, people are loyal to their tribe. — (Pirio)

I’m a sex lover and fan of family reunions. Those two things are unrelated, just as all my sex partners are unrelated (at least to me).

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks.

Dia adek yang paling gue sayang, yang kalau misalnya gue denger petir gede aja akan gue telepon buat nanya apa dia baik-baik aja.

I should name my future son after an orgasm sound. Not mine—his mother’s. It’d be silly to name him Eek, after my orgasm sound, because that’s his uncle’s name, and that’d be too confusing.

Have you been waiting in this line her whole life?

Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don’t.I have grey eyes to her green,an oval face to her heart-shaped one,I’m shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.All we shared is a madhouse of...

I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).

One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you’re saying...

Fame, infamy, they’re of the same family.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Daniel first kisses his brother in a town where no-one knows them, a no-account place that’s barely even a town, just some buildings clustered around the highway: a smoky bar, an empty motel, a convenience...

My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate’s beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her...

I just want you to see out there, where it’s blue and wild and full of adventure. And then I want you to see in here, where there’s a warm yellow glow and your family...

You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you...

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you’re no longer their child.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

We will not always be here, so let’s make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.

Meadow’s Waltz…the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began…

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

And he doesn’t care what you’re wearing or what you’ve brought him. He just wants you there. Wanting him. And time is running out. He won’t love you unconditionally that much longer. And soon he...

The purpose of family is to preserve life,’ Aunt Patti said. ‘We treat family members the way we’re supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I’ve never been so proud of you in all my life. You’ve always been beautiful;...

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there...

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to ‘be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on...

For his children, he would move mountains.