Family

Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother”.

Januz feels glad to have her in his arms--his wife, who would do anything to protect their son. This is how she presents herself. Like a soldier who would kill for her country. And her country is their son.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked.

You’ll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only family I ever knew, and I miss him almost as much as you. But I need me a woman.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

When it comes to family, everything gets personal.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

We are a noisy and blessed little family.