Families Quotes

“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Families,” said Angel, with some feeling. “Can’t live with them, can’t have them killed without complications.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend.
But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short
skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday.
My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend.
Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable
pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it
was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with
what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital
& I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale,
bad plot, great wifi in the atypical café. My mother was in the hospital
& she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family
grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father
to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when
I do the list for you. Even then.”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“No longer married, suddenly I was widowed. From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body.”
― Elaine Pagels, Why Religion? A Personal Story

“I don't like it,' said Pigott. 'This is a well-established neighborhood. These families go back generations.'

'Don't all families go back generations?”
― Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy

“I wish I'd gotten to know my dad better too," Kent nodded, "because when I did know him, he already wasn't himself. But the thing is, I never blamed him."
"Why's that?"
"I suppose because trying to place blame on someone always seemed like an impossible task. Like trying to find the start of something that's actually an endless cycle. I just figured it was better to be hard on myself and to make sure that I was a better person to those I loved. That way I could break the cycle."
Did you hear that, Dad? That's the kind of wisdom older brothers are put on this earth to dispense.”
― Louie Anderson, Dear Dad: Letters from an Adult Child

“She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn't have enough of her to share.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.”
― Beth Cohen

“In some ways, no one is tougher on one another than sisters. Like parents, they're hyperaware of another's past foibles and faults; but, without the infinite parental capacity for love and forgiveness, they judge one another far more harshly for them.
I swear there are times when they really might kill one another. Until, of course, one of them is in trouble or threatened by an outside agent, in which case they band together into an unbreakable front.
Internally fractured yet externally united. The world over, it's the very definition of sisterhood.”
― Brad Parks, Say Nothing

“The problem with having a family made up of friends is that once they decided to leave, you didn’t run into them at weddings and funerals. Once they left, you never saw them again.”
― Lara Lillibridge, Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home

“I traded in my
freedom for
a needy, whiny
and defiant
four-year-old,
a junky girlfriend,
and a relationship
riddled with
someone else’s
problems

Now, I stare
out of open
windows like
a wild mustang
craving open
fields

I clench my
crotch, where
my balls
used to be,
and I hum a
loathsome tune,
like an out-
of-work castrato
who’s realized his
dreams of someday
having his own family
are gone”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“Home is where your heart is.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The measure of a man is determined by the distance between his knees and the ground. The less the distance, the greater the man.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Family members can find their siblings incomprehensible because they assume that given their genetic and environmental commonality their siblings should comport themselves in a similar manner. Although we each know all the key events of one another lives, being siblings still allows for a chasm of unknown, misinterpretation, and misunderstanding. We all need a degree of privacy and that we only share with other people including esteemed family members select parts of ourselves. We each hold back revealing part of ourselves, but most of us are uncomfortable if we think other people and especially our spouses or close family members harbor furtive thoughts.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly long cord when measured in comparison with any other undertaking in a person’s life, from cradle to the grave if you will. These intimate associations create a bond of love, affection, goodwill, and joy that we seek to duplicate when we marry and begin creating our extended families.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.”
― Michael Robotham, Lost

“The only way we can revive our memories, if we are willing to ponder about the events that was never discussed for years by looking back at old photos or written texts which gives us a clue about the event we are trying to recall about. If that strategy is accomplished, we will have a clear episodic memory about that particular event that we perceive it as very significant to us.”
― Saaif Alam

“Io ci vedo una metafora, in questo gesto. Di come la tua vita può cambiare se decidi di togliere la pellicola protettiva.”
― Marco Marsullo, I miei genitori non hanno figli

“Ci sono figli di colleghi di mia mamma più bravi di me a fare qualsiasi cosa. Ci sono figli di colleghi di mia mamma che, forse, sono anche più figli di mia mamma rispetto a me.”
― Marco Marsullo, I miei genitori non hanno figli

“Friends are holy families.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Constant criticism within families
Erodes revered relationships
Poison pierces through minds
To blind your own judgment”
― Balroop Singh

“Still, the roads were fairly clear of traffic, aside from those families that did not wish to take a chance by sticking around and waiting to see what happened next. Those were the smart ones.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Family will be there for you when you’re down on your luck or need a helping hand. Family will protect you from the cold or from the fears that haunt you. Material things are cold and have no soul.”
― K.J. Dahlen, Sazon

“If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think: it's the holidays. There are parties. I'm young. I've spent the past two years going to oncologists. I'm going to put on my party shoes. And I do go to one party, and I leave when people start to dance around a pole. Later I start dating the man whose party it was, and he remembers being glad I came, and casually tells me how he flirted his head off that night. I'm not in your country, I think. I haven't lived in your country for a while.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye

“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success

“Don't we—and our families, our children, and our loved ones—deserve our best selves?”
― Corey Wheeland, Blessed, Beautiful Now: How I Embraced The Present By Celebrating My Past And Learned to Love Life Again

“It can be disconcerting when people around us change. Family members and especially parents frequently resist acknowledging transformation in other family members. Depending upon the nature of the personality modification, they might even resent if it a family member changes as any fundamental personality revision by a member of a family alters the group’s identity as well.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls