You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It’s just that simple.

It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.

And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you’re just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you’ll go to the very...

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Sabeis como é, s’o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu’o filho seja árvore. S’o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

And maybe that’s it- if your family is broken and ruined, go find another one, or better yet, go make another one.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents,...

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

You ask ‘Are you a man or a demon?’ Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. “NO?

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

Family is a transitive property.

Let’s just go in and enjoy ourselves,’ Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and...

Der Mann ist das Haupt der Familie – und die Frau ist der Hals, auf dem es sich dreht.

Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho (‘Kahima the Warrior’) alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa...

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,”...

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots...

There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you’d seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn’t remember not knowing. Even if the past was a complicated mess, as you aged,...

Being a detective isn’t all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant…The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

Live life so well that, even if you die, the empty seats behind you will tell the story that, ‘Yea, this soul did what God sent him/her to do’. Give life and hope into your...

I was crying on the inside, but on the outside, to the casual observer, and to the man who was dying, I was laughing. That man was my father, and I haven’t laughed that hard...

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand...

When you are a dreamer, so many people are not going to believe in the success of your dream. These people could include your close friends, relatives, parents, siblings, and other people around you. But...

I had a dream about you. I walked by and you whistled like I was a piece of meat. And I was a piece of meat—I was a thin slice of ham. You were two...

My biggest life influences are people of the future, people yet to be born. Two people, in particular: Zax Xaz and Xaz Zax, who were both named after their father, John Smith—though they don’t share...

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they’re happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

I like spending time with my family. And if you have the same last name as me, we might be family. I’m an orphan, so I was hoping we could hang out.

I put the hell in hello—especially when waving at my mother-in-law. If looks could kill, she’d wish she were Helen Keller.

My boy’s going to grow up so big and strong he’ll be able to beat up both his dad and his grandpa—at the same time. Though I hope he never has to do that. One...

…by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; ‘circle’ sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.

Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses…unless you prefer to die.

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play...

Prospero the Enchanter’s immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: “Well, fuck.

Every citizen must pray for its nation.

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn’t be who we wanted the other to be.

True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one another because of the fact of that no...

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family

My plans for the future are to serve more and better, to worry less about the things that are unimportant, to let my wife and children know how much I love them, to openly support...

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of...

No one’s smart when it comes to family. Blood is thicker than smart.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they’re normal to you because you’ve been dealing with them all your life.