I don’t need anyone and nobody needs me. That was the unspoken lesson I learned from my mother growing up.
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Quotes tagged ‘Family’
I somehow thought she would die and still be alive. I would like to think she is somewhere in that distant sound that resembles the sea in which she taught me to swim, but she is not there. She has gone, slipped away, disappeared.
There is a part of me that has always believed he is invincible, tethered to life by his own vibrancy and the eternal youth that feels locked in place by the strength of our family structure.
Life and death and family are cyclical for us.
No good person has ever advocated for the senseless separation of kids from their parents.
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
Our nearest and dearest are often those who are most in the dark respecting our private and personal sufferings — we do not wish to trouble them — and they prefer to think that everything is right with us, even though the veriest stranger, meeting us casually, clearly beholds the shadow of the dark…
I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets; the deserted tomb of the Hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth.
The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him. What the little fellow hears at home does not ten…
We may choose a different path on how we get there, which Sex and the City normalized for many, but ultimately, many of us want to end up in the comfort of familiarity.
Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.
Friends are the family you choose.
The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.
— Terri Minsky, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
At times I’ve resented straight couples for the ease with which they create life — wondered why I should have to clear such a high bar to have even one child when, say, the Duggars can have 47.
I’m far too busy to have a wife and children. What would I know about nappies and so forth? No, no – I prefer to build empires rather than families!
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.
No one comes after my family.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justine Juel Gillmer, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com
It's true, you do not have a father in this world, and you're going to meet all sorts of people who say stupid things to you about that. Unfortunately, the eyes of most people are clouded and unable to see the truth, Yoshiya, but Our Lord, your father, is the world itself. You are fortunate to live…
To be the one my parents raised me to be— a season from the planet of planet-sized storms.
Don't work with family. Take it from me, it doesn't work, I don't care what anyone says.