Family Life Quotes

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“I'll remind you of that someday, Maura says." when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that.

Maura to Jess.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the house and garden would be dotted with poets, authors, artists, and playwrights arguing, painting, drinking, typing, and composing. Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised, they all turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics who were so highbrow that they had difficulty in understanding one another.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Think pleasantly;
Think of how beautiful you are.
Think of the families you are blessed with.
Think of the dreams you have to achieve.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Make sure she can reach you 24hours a day.”
― Harry H. Harrison Jr.

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker arguments hidden in them.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Tricksters

“Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Next to God, Family is the best thing.”
― April Floyd, Unique: A Unique World & A Unique Life

“It wasn't a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and trying to be on time. Petty little thing, but zillions of them fused together.”
― Heather Graham, A Magical Christmas

“My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.”
― Margot Page, Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains

“I would come to learn that the alpha female can read every single bit of food you put into your body. Make a choice that'a going to keep you strong and fit for the pack and you will pass muster; make a choice that's the equivalent of chocolate cake in the human world and you'll wind up urinating in streams to disguise your scent, or else suffer the consequences.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.”

“I’m sorry. I have to talk to you; it’s something very important. Papá, Mamá, I’ve made a decision, and I wanted to share it with you. I’ve decided to convert to the Muslim religion.”

“What?” Pilar screamed. “Are you out of your mind?”

“Julia, what are you saying?”

“I want to be a Muslim. I’ve even chosen a new Muslim name, Aliyah.”

“Julia, are you drunk?”

“No, Papá, I’m not drunk. I’ve thought about this for a very long time. I think it’s the right thing for me, a way to follow God.”
― Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust

“Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of ‘likes’, tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Value supported family and friends.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.”
― Karen Jones Gowen, Uncut Diamonds

“Marcie looked at the ugly thing and took a minute to rearrange her mental picture of the family gathered around the wood-burning stove, replacing the quaint, charming piece in her imagination with this big, brown metal beast, which would heat their home but not burn little fingers. It would be like a large, beloved dog of some hideous mixed breed, that fit right into their family and served its purpose so well that no one noticed or cared what it looked like.”
― Karen Jones Gowen, Uncut Diamonds

“I'm pretty much awake now." (P) "The last time I said that, I passed out in the bathtub." (I) "I remember that. Neil covered you with towels and said that he found a mermaid." (P) "You were so beautiful, Mummy. Like Ice Bird when he freezes the pigs." (N) "Thank you, sweet." -- Ingrid, Paul and Neil.”
― Bailey Cunningham

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort, and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish,”
― John Paul II

“If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, In Certain Circles

“Jase opened his door, stepped down, and leaned into her window. “Hungry?”

Taking a big breath didn’t help when his sexy scent of cologne had hit her in the face. Hallelujah. “Yeah, I’m getting there.”

“Let’s go. The cowboy just came to take you away.” He reached in and turned off the ignition, clasped her keys and opened the door. When she stepped out, he didn’t bother to move back any and they were close. This man was hot and not only his temperature. Whatever kind of chemistry radiated off him, soaked right into her.”
― Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, Heartbreak's Reward

“Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it.”
― Christina Bartolomeo, Snowed In

“Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice