#ily

A man should never neglect his family for business. ↗

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#above #became #betrayed #commerce #dear

I get sidetracked very easily. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#get #i #sidetracked #very

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#family #father #made #me #never

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#family #friends #friendship #family

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#sherrilyn-kenyon #family

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#readers #reading #family

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #family

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#parents-and-children #family