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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Sep 29, 2025
But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.
He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
Writers will happen in the best of families.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.
Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?
What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin? Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to. Travis: Or prank. Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
My family's the most important thing in my life.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Families are the compass that guide us.
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?