Quotes about Family
As good as gold [Tiny Tim].
- Charles Dickens
God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
- Charles Dickens
Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
- Charles Dickens
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
- Charles Dickens
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.
- Charles Dickens
Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.
- Charles Dickens
And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!
- Charles Dickens
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
- Charles Dickens
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
- Charles Dickens
Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough, and could dispense with any more.
- Charles Dickens
My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.
- Charles Dickens
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as if most other sauce to wretched bread. Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meager children; and lovers, with such a word around then and before them, loved and hoped.
- Charles Dickens