Quotes
about FAMILY - When you loved someone and had to let them go
“I
sustain myself with the love of family.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Legion,
cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as
Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood.
‘Greeks!’
Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged.
Jason
grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they
made up for it with enthusiasm.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“Your
children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the
heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach
them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you
are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
―
Lisa Wingate
“When
you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part
of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you
fight for it?”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“You
can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each
partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry
words.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Then
I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
―
Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
“A
dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a
sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people
have dangerous ones.”
―
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“But
grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do
things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”
―
Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
“I
also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above
their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they
endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“To
lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of
growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and
nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who
supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother,
well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I
would rather not go on.”
―
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“You
can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the
same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach,
because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
―
Frederick Buechner
“Rejection
is an opportunity for your selection.”
―
Bernard Branson
“I
love you enough to never make you choose.”
―
Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
“Friends
are God's way of apologizing for your family.”
―
Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your
Way
“This
is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family
will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money.
Not fame. Not work.”
―
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“Being
a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets
truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can
bring yourself to visit your relatives.”
―
Derek Landy
“Fred,
you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm
not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call
yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry,
George, dear."
"Only
joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Home
is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
―
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“This
was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it
hurt.”
―
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Let
us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult
to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
―
Mother Teresa
