Family

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

We're not cannibals,' he said as if to remind them. 'Cannibals boil people alive in cauldrons. I prefer to think of ourselves as evolved eaters. As a family, we're at the forefront of fine dining. Human flesh is an acquired taste, and I've worked hard to give you all the chance to appreciate it for yourselves.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.

(Rude Scrabble)You played this game with your parents?' he asked skeptically.Yep. And Mom always won, the dirty bitch. I guess being older she'd been around more than me and Carrie,' Sophie said, extracting replacement tiles from the box. 'Although I don't know what Dad's excuse was. Lack of imagination, I guess. Your turn.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

She understood him with the knowing and not-knowing that comes of being a child. When you focus on your parent as if they are the center of the earth, that thing on which your survival depends, only later do you realize their flaws, their scars, and their weaknesses.

Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

Feminist movement is pro-family.

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.'The better to style with, my dear.

Thank you! ....For sharing your childhood with me so I could experience the all joys that were missing in mine.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.