Quotes about Family
The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget. The woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
- Cormac McCarthy
The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.
- Cormac McCarthy
I know they's a lots of things in a family history that just plain aint so. Any family. The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the saying goes.
- Cormac McCarthy
William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
- DH Lawrence
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
- DH Lawrence
He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.
- DH Lawrence
Sometimes a good husband came along with his family, peacefully. But usually the women and children were alone.
- DH Lawrence
She never suffered alone any more: the children suffered with her.
- DH Lawrence
For some things, said his aunt, it was a good thing Paul was ill that Christmas. I believe it saved his mother. Paul
- DH Lawrence
They want me in Lime Street on Monday week, mother, he cried, his eyes blazing, as he read the letter. Mrs Morel felt everything go silent inside her. ... It never occurred to him that she might be more hurt of his going away, than glad of his success.
- DH Lawrence
My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.
- Wanda Brunstetter
I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.
- Wendell Berry