It’s my sister’s favorite car.

Be as successful as a Smith.

One thing my grandpa taught me was never fall asleep while swimming. Or, rather, I’m sure he would have taught me that if he had the chance. (He drowned when he was a little boy.)

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

My father inherited my old looks.

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.

She’s a people-mechanic and always knows when I’m malfunctioning.

i’ve found the best way to give advice to your children,is to find out what they want,and then advise them to do it

Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. (Analogy:...

I’m an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn’t matter, but you know… Don’t you dare point a gun at your own brother!

Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel…Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don’t be having too much...

Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

O, great wise man,’ she said, ‘I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one’s...

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Those who think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet...

I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night....

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment–discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

The strength was always in you. All you had to do was find it.

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

The first time someone I loved left me behind…I didn’t know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be...

She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it,...

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower

A few guards, chains, and a locked door can’t keep a family apart.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children...

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

I do not believe in God. Instead I believe in the power of Family. And occasionally, when I’m feeling optimistic, in free will. But blood is a force to be reckoned with. God for example,...

…I decided I’d changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn’t any particular place at all. Home...

It’s so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

I’ve remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they’re actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that...

It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.

Danny couldn’t remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them go away. They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt...

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

The family watched It’s a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn’t they make a movie about uncle Billy?…Because he was a drunk and fat and...

What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.Travis: Or prank.Connor: Or pickpocket. One...

They may already know too much about their mother and father–nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I’ve...

No one have a perfect family, but mine is perfect for me

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat...

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn’t need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it,...

Children only know what you teach them.

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your...