Quotes tagged ‘Family Love’

“Kyle: Stan, you can use family love as a weapon against Shelley. The next time she's going to kick your ass, just tell her 'Shelley, you're my sister and I love you.' Kenny [muffled]: And I want to see you handling your breasts. Stan: Sick, dude, she's my sister!”

— Dan Sterling, Trey Parker, Kyle Broflovski, Matt Stone, imdb.com

“It’s easy to forget that Dawn attempts to sacrifice herself in the final scene of the season five finale, ‘The Gift’ first. What makes that scene so powerful is that they’re both willing to do it for the other.”

— Anna Horan, junkee.com

“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”

— Makrus Zusak, Liesel, amazon.com

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

— Mindy Kaling, parade.com

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”

— Bea Arthur, Dorothy, amazon.com

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

— Meryl Streep, parade.com

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

— Michael Jordan, parade.com

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”

— Princess Diana, parade.com

“I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.”

— Chelsea Clinton, parade.com

“When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.'”

— Ian Falconer, amazon.com

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”

— JK Rowling, parade.com

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

— Maya Angelou, parade.com

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

— Mitch Albom, parade.com

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

— Gail Tsukiyama, parade.com

“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

— Roald Dahl, parade.com

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com