Family Quotes - page 80

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back. (Jodi Picoult)
I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong. View quote
Jodi Picoult
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. View quote
Angela Carter
Do you know how many times I have gone into Bedford police station, I have gone into Kempston police station, to say here are comments to kill my family but nothing ever gets done. I have three kids, an innocent wife, my family are scared. View quote
Tommy Robinson
I stay in tune with my family and God. View quote
Regina King
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. View quote
Lynn Margulis
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. View quote
Amy Tan
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. View quote
Amy Tan
You may keep your ten thousand talents; I am not in want of money, I have taken enough. Why only the half of your kingdom to the Euphrates? You offer me the part in exchange for the whole. Your daughter whom you speak of, I shall marry if I choose, whether given by you or not. Your family is safe; no ransom is required of you; come here yourself and make your suit to me, you shall have them free. If you desire our friendship, you have only to ask. View quote
Mary Renault
Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back. (Cassandra Clare)
I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations. View quote
Cassandra Clare
You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Herondales. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear. View quote
Cassandra Clare
You're my sister,” he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”-he laughed soundlessly and without any humor-"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do. View quote
Cassandra Clare
He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Family is more than blood. View quote
Cassandra Clare
we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire. (Cassandra Clare)
Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. "If it was your family?” His lip curled. "Never mind. It's not as if you know the meaning of loyalty -” "Gabriel.” Gideon's voice was a reprimand to his brother. "Do not speak to Will in that manner. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I declare that henceforth capital and labor shall have equal rights and duties as brothers in the fascist family. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. View quote
Anne Tyler
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. View quote
Anne Tyler