Quotes about Relationships

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

What matters is how well we have loved.

I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.

I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.