I’ll mark up my services 200%, and then offer them to you at a 50% discount—because I like you so much. That’s the Mother-in-law Discount.

My son’s name will be Sonya, like his mother, whose name will be Dadya.

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need...

Families are weird. You’d think that people who live and eat and sleep in the same place would always have a lot in common. But sometimes they don’t have anything in common AT ALL. You...

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

My parents’ work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going – to keep me going. I realized that, although...

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Gran runs her fingers through my hair, smiling down at me. I’m to weak to reach up and trace her laugh lines, but I trace them with my eyes, thinking of all the years that...

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

Si no quiere abrazarme, entonces que tampoco se acerque para golpearme.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Will laughed. ‘I now know why fate linked you with Xav. You are going to tease each other unmercifully.’Victorthrew down a card. ‘Might make the world a little safer for the rest of us then.”Unless...

There are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential.

Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and...

She wants you to be a god,” I told him.”I know.” His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

when life becomes to much to handle, remember the one’s who make it all worth while.

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

…But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a...

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon’s bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public...

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now...

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her… I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to...

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating others.

Unlike her, he came from a good family. A prechopped pepper kind of family.

Fair enough.” She lowered her knees, stared down as she buttoned her shirt again. “Ty, I’m reallysorry. I’d never do anything to upset Eli, or to cause trouble between the two of you.””I know.” He...

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

But that’s what family is, isn’t it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy...

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear...

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of...

When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters’ note about kidnapping Reyna, he’d torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn’t want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. Fortunately, he’d...

It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn’t deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment...

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

What I love most about my home is who I share it with.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

Church has believed that parents probably wont’ assume responsibility for their own children’s growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a “drop-off” mentality....

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a...

A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them. He or she loves you because your combined souls understand one another,...

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world – your test scores and...

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.