Almost all the times advices from your loved ones are for your safety, not for your success.

No matter how old you are, there’s no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you.

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

There is no “them” and “us”. We are all sons and daughters of God.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Family’s not family unless it’s totally messing you up. I’m pretty sure that’s the point

Community, community, community. It’s ALL about community. That’s the explanation of why it pains us when we find ourselves isolated from others. That’s the reason why it hurts to say good-bye to those we love…….....

Her magnificence is deeper than skin.

Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

Usiifundishe familia yako anasa. Ifundishe upendo, unyenyekevu na hofu ya Mungu. Ukiifundisha anasa utahatarisha maisha ya mbinguni ya familia yako, na ya kwako pia.

One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival…I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as ‘the brilliant one’ but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn’t be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose....

We were born in the ’70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

Relationships grounded in mutual love, trust, caring and forgiveness. In all the ups and all the downs of life. Look closely, – who is really your family, and who in truth are just strangers in...

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.

This is what I’m supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I’m supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was...

There is no home as comfortable as your father’s arms and no bed as soft as your mother’s lap.

My girlfriend just had a baby. We’ve known each other for six months, so I’m pretty stunned to find myself becoming a father so soon. I hope the baby looks like me!

I asked if she wanted kids. She said her clock is ticking. I said, That’s because I set it five minutes ahead when you weren’t looking.

Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your phone will be ringing nonstop. And you know I’ll call you too, because...

My uncle’s a big drinker. In fact, he just got a liver transplant. They replaced it with a bottle of whiskey.

A band should be more famous than an individual, because all else being equal, the band has more mothers and fathers to lend support.

I possess an object that reminds me of your stepdad’s bowel movements. It’s brown and squishy and smells like yesterday.

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

Mapleshade: “Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything.” Crookedstar: “No, Mapleshade. You’re wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now… …now everything precious to...

Hazel, you deserve a life.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love… But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but...

I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar objects, with a towel and a washcloth nicely laid out, and from there...

You don’t know what it’s like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you...

Taylor, what about the Brigadier who came searching for you that day? Whatever became of him?” I try to explain that the Brigadier is of no importance to my story, but he always shakes his...

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet – the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the...

Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they...

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future– of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its...

Don’t worry that you’re being pathetic when you try not to get caught stealing a kiss from your spouse, or when you pray for a time when the kids are out of the house so...

…we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see...

There are people in this home- human beings- drowning in their desire for you to look them in the eye. You made this family. And all you have to do is show up and like...

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole’s Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Talvez um dia ele conte como tudo começou entre ele e Marin, e porquê — e se cada um sentiu o amor como poder ou abandono, e se os seus corações se trocaram livremente e...

At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. ‘Yum!’ he’d say, and ‘Charcoal! Good for you!’ and ‘Burnt toast! My favorite!’ and he’d eat it all up. When I was much...

We are a noisy and blessed little family