Quotes of: Family-member Keyword

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

Stealing Athena

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

The Sisters Brothers

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Sprout of Disruption

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today's Families

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

Such a Pretty Girl

You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive.

The Selection

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.

My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Badmind is such a treacherous emotion because the very thing someone badmind's you for, is the same thing he/she wants for themselves.

Mama Brown's Family

Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.

Modigliani: A Life

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

Musings on Minutiae

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Missing May

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

Monsoon Memories

You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What—are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?

Make Me, Sir

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The Mysterious Benedict Society

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

Little Tea Book

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

The Lost Herondale

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park. And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

The Light in the Ruins

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

Last Sacrifice

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb