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Family Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
- 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…
- All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther…
- In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
More Family Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to… — Gerard Arpey
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius