Family Quote by Lucille Clifton Download Open image ““they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.”” — Lucille Clifton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Language
“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of… — Sarah Mae Copy Share Image
“There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again.” — Nathan Leslie Copy Share Image
“The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“If it were not for stubborn questions, slow minds, and hearts there were locked tight and secure, the truth about our family would have… — Paul Sunga Copy Share Image
“I thought I'd make them understand, with rhetoric, with everything I had learned. I didn't realize I was ending it all, that it would… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Families shelter their knowledge, keeping it safe and beloved like a delicate heirloom, away from the careless stomping of strangers.” — Random House Canada Copy Share Image
“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.” — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough to light up the room-and make him see stars. "Excellent! I'm so pleased. And now I really should go. I don't want to keep your family waiting." His family. She was going out with his family.… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
