Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

The thing about families is that you rarely get to choose them since you tend to be born into one and be a part of it. The family, on the other hand, tends to choose...

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

Time change – Moments don’t.

There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.’ She smiled at me....

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

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.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family…

All through dinner Arturo and I held hands under the table like a couple of kids, and that made the dinner quite wonderful, even though Mrs. Fletcher kept staring at Olivia as though committing her...

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just...

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is...

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

I treat strangers like friends, friends like family, and family like strangers. And I make love like a cup of coffee that likes a cup of tea.

A water fountain is a drinkable sculpture. I just drank one shaped like my father, and I can’t wait to shoot him out of my penis, so I can abandon him like he did to...

The Internet doesn’t love you or need you – but your family does.

No, I’m not.

Never eat the Cheerios after your brother’s pissed in the milk.” Of course, since my pops had to work three jobs to support us, we often did have to finish our cereal, no matter if...

I believe in God and that everything I do is because of Him. If I don’t have a relationship with God, I can’t love my wife and kids the way I’m supposed to love them.

Normally I charge 60 cents on the dollar for stolen merchandise. But since it was my mother-in-law, and I stole it from her, I only charged her 50 cents on the dollar. That’s love.

My grandpa was a grandma robber. He stole two grandmas, both of them mine. His name was Rob.

I needed to call him or my parents. Immediately. I rolled my eyes. Couldn’t have been that important, because you’d think one of them would’ve picked up the phone and called me if it had...

God’s Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

…And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the...

Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by your own grandparents and extended family. When I have been through...

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on...

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something...

I don’t have time is the worst possible excuse for I’d rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it’s all in what you WANT...

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my...

Ever boy deserves a father.

Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn’t...

You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you...

God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don’t need advise from others.But it is our mom and dad we turn to...