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family - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Joseph Conrad
We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.
Anne Lamott
As well as we know our grown children and relatives, we don't know how much energy they have to put into simply keeping their lives together at all.
Patricia Lockwood
As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a grown-up this whole time. My briefcase is full of milk: I have been found out.'This, then, is home. What is home? Is it a sort of lap of location, that exists only if certain conditions are in place? Is it the intersection of rigidity and comfort--a junction of familiartiy that you curl into? Is it a feeling? I don't know, but I'm being hugged hard against it, and I can't tell when I'll be let go.
Joyce Carol Oates
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
Joyce Carol Oates
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.
Orhan Pamuk
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
John Cheever
He seemed, while I was skating in the center of the pond, that the number of stars I could see had multiplied. They were scattered dense as a throttle of Bucaneve.
Keri Hulme
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.
Karen Kingsbury
And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
Karen Kingsbury
This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.
Toni Morrison
Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true {and how do you know}? 2. What problem do you have?
Wallace Stegner
Before I can say , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones {that part unfortunate}, plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial.
Jodi Picoult
Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed - comfort food for your nose.
Jodi Picoult
What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.
Jodi Picoult
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
Jodi Picoult
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
Ian McEwan
When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.
Jonathan Safran Foer
...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
Jonathan Safran Foer
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt.
Jonathan Safran Foer
{You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.}{You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.}{And you are deserving of shame?}{I am. I am trying to tell you.} 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.''Why is this stupid?''Because there are not things to believe in.'{Love?}{There is no love. Only the end of love.}{Goodness?}{Do not be a fool.}{God?}{If God exists, He is not to be believed in.}
Curtis Sittenfeld
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
Katie McGarry
The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone.
Katie McGarry
Jacob smiled from ear to ear when he shook the man's hand on stage. The man then handed him a trophy.
Katie McGarry
I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
Sophie Kinsella
It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.
Rick Riordan
When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters' note about kidnapping Reyna, he'd torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn't want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. Fortunately, he'd got Reyna back, but he didn't like how brooding she had become. Every time he tried to ask her about the incident on the Calle San Jose – those ghosts on the balcony, all staring at her, whispering accusations – Reyna shut him down.
Rick Riordan
Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real – brutally honest, inescapably dependable.
Darren Shan
Then we still have time! I gasp. It's not too late. We know what he's going to do. We'll return to the cave and fight. ? Kernel says sarcastically.Yes! I'll fight to save Dervish and Bill-E. I don't care what those monsters throw at us. When it's family, it's different. You really think you can choose not to be a coward if and when it suits you? Kernel jeers. Beranabus interrupts wearily before I can retort. It doesn't matter. You're arguing about nothing. The time for heroics has passed.
Orson Scott Card
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.
Joseph Heller
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
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by Jean Sasson
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