Family Quotes

"Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycles are machines. And you have opportunities and things that happen that occur over and over again, and they work in various ways." "There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there" "A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be" "Family is a circus without the tent" "One thing they never tell you about child-raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is." "My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car." "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents." "I live for my sons. I would be lost without them " "My most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world." "A society without mothers is a society that has lost respect for life and has ceased to care about life." "With all my fans I got a family again." "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." "When I was a kid, my grandmother had this giant spool of thread, and we were going to string it out of her window real far, you know, and then let go and put a note on the end. Now I'm stuck with a spool of string I could never use up." "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." "Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." "There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant brotherhood." "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish." "Every baby is a big love affair" "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy." "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."