Quotes about Family

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.

Be a good girl, she said. I hope you'll be a good sister to Laura. I know you try to be. I nodded. I didn't know what to say. I felt I was the victim of an injustice: why was it always me who was supposed to be a good sister to Laura, instead of the other way around? Surely my mother loved Laura more than she loved me.

Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.

Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

Blood is thinner than money.

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.