Jeff Hudson started me on a path that was key, and as life goes on it’s become a mantra to me. It’s that you’re born into a family, your family of origin, and you’re stuck...

I was the problem and the solution.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.

You’re the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Personligt kan jeg kun forestille mig én ting, der er endnu værre (end at have venner): familien. Gudskelov befinder jeg mig i den gunstige situation, at jeg ingen familie har.

Just because someone says it is so doesn’t mean it is.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

I’m very close to my dad. He’s about six inches away right now and snoring in my ears.

I don’t feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don’t clarify, I don’t doubt, I don’t worry. I don’t tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else,...

I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous...

Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the...

He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about.

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

I have more concern for my nephew’s welfare than for Lannister pride.

Erections are temporary, but child support is forever.

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.

I’d like to write a screenplay about my grandpa, and I’d like my future grandson to play the part. Talk about a mindfuck!

If I met a man who had eleven sons, the first thing I’d ask is, Are they all yours? And of course the next question I’d ask is, which one plays quarterback and which one...

I love you” can stop bleeding faster than a Band-Aid. It’s true. It worked for me after I stabbed my grandpa.

I want to be a dad. Sorry, I’m dyslexic. I meant to write dad.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass...

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. ‘What is it?’ asked Larry at length. ‘It’s a bathing costume, of course,’ said Mother. ‘What on earth did you think it was?’...

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage...

Blood is thicker than water,”The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a house full of lies.

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

If you didn’t feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for...

you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away....

But they’re family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that’s what you do, Posey. Forgive.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and...

When dancing with a pit bull, it’s always best to let him lead.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

One probably hears about it.One, wire, recognizes.One holds her bones up next to each other.One insists, grinding the clutch.One would powder and powder.One would ask out of the back of the throat.One refuses.One is so...

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-“”The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl.” He sounds bitter and sad.”If the world will not forgive me,” I say softly, “I...

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

i love playing and chatting with children…feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my…life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly,...

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children’s. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to...

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister’s voice reminding me of who I had been.