Quotes by Family In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley family meaningful inspirational When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley alex family talking I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends. Alexa Vega sister family mom A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. Alexander Pope commonwealth family The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world. Alexander Sutherland Neill family war children Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child. Alexander Sutherland Neill family absence children My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way Ali Shariati family responsibility father Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets. Alice Cooper shields family mother The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation. Alice Miller family self opportunity And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Alice Walker family flower mother Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results. Alva Myrdal family simple home Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from. A.M. Homes family agreement children Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce mothers-day family mom DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. Ambrose Bierce family daughter faith Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce family care men What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience? Amitav Ghosh family anger country Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Amos Bronson Alcott family home children I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. Amos Oz mysterious family world He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife. Amy Schumer weekend family wife My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of. Amy Tan family brother mother «1234567891011»