Family Quotes

"With all my fans I got a family again." "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." "When I was a kid, my grandmother had this giant spool of thread, and we were going to string it out of her window real far, you know, and then let go and put a note on the end. Now I'm stuck with a spool of string I could never use up." "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." "Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." "There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant brotherhood." "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." "Every baby is a big love affair" "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy." "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." "Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife." "A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes" "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." "Children need the emotional presence of their caregivers to thrive" "The best part of having a family is that no matter what, they are always there for you"