Family Quotes

There's one in every family, sire. Two in mine, actually, and they always manage to ruin special occasions.

So I thought that one of the perks of having a family was that you didn't have to spend New Year's Eve alone with Chinese food.

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Very important thing, a family. Only have one.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

Tarrant Hightopp / Mad Hatter

Meaningful Quotes

— Mike! You don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that!
— Fredo. You're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone... against the family again... ever.

A good man does eνerything in his power to better his family's position, regardless of his own selfish desires.

— Listen, "Doctor", while we're on me just for a second, my very pregnant ex-wife would like me to take a couple of days off and travel to her mother's house so we can reconnect as a family.
— And I assume that you told her to blow it out her ass.
— You get me! Darn it, you do!

The house that puts family first will always defeat the house that puts the whims and wishes of its sons and daughters first.

Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family.

Sahtino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.

Never turn your back on family, even when they hurt you. Never let life get the better of you. And if you remember nothing else, remember to find time to eat together as a family. Even when times are rough; especially when times are rough. There's no lack of painful things in this world, but hunger and loneliness must surely be two of the worst.

Even if yur father is a major ashole, call and tell him you lov him. Even if you don't mean at all. You might mean it later after he is gone forver.

Marriage is hard enough without such low expectations.

— I figured everybody hated me, like Sarah and Lorraine hate each other.
— There are times when I want to kill Sarah, but I'd kill for her all the time.

Me, I knew my dad for about six years, but I don't remember anything. My dad, he starts a new family in a new town about every six years. This isn't so much like a family as it's like he sets up a franchise.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

Habits

He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch, it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slope's gonna put their greasy, yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something — his ass. Five long years he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery — He give me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then… after seven years, I was sent home to my family and… now… Little man, I give the watch to you.