Ronan Farrow Quotes

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

I write about families. That is who we are.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.