Family Absence Quotes

#1. Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence - or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers - and

Charles Dickens

#2. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

#3. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#4. Rule number something or other
never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Sara Paretsky

#5. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. The thought of friends or family enjoying themselves in my absence gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Connor Franta

#7. When he visited his and Adam's old bedroom, the thread of disapproval he'd felt during his proposal of a memorial became a rope, as he saw the savage absence not only of Adam but of himself. So when he shut the door on his family and stepped out into the rain it was an already belated act.

Toni Morrison

#8. I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Bernadine Dohrn

#9. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Sherman Alexie

#10. When you're involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you.

Dallin H. Oaks

#11. Our recent research indicates that an absence of warmth, acceptance, and support characterizes the early family life of many hoarders, perhaps leading them to form strong emotional attachments to possessions.

Gail Steketee

#12. Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Erma Bombeck

#13. As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Cornal West

#14. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.'

Luanne Rice

#16. Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#17. Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

Sri Chinmoy

#18. Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.

Andrea Barrett

#20. The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Eric Hoffer

#21. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Steve Pemberton