"It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you--when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weakness. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead." - Robin Williams
"Blood means you're related, it doesn't mean you're family." - Boy Meets World
"That's the thing with teenagers. They think all their parents want to do is keep them from having fun, when they're really only trying to save them from broken hearts."
"when you're not sure you trust a person anymore, say a person you really trusted, say your father, you start wishing they'd do something like, really wrong, just so you can be right about them." - My So-Called Life
"I think maybe that happens sometimes to girls who lose their mothers when they're young, they're very driven to succeed." - dawson's creek
"We're all strangers to our parents; they love us, but they don't really know us. And sometimes before we get a chance to know them, they're gone. And then you can't ask them all the things you want to know about turnips or turkey gizzards or what they were like when they were young. Then you never can know them, not really. Because it's too late." - dawson's creek
"parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. they move on. they move away. the moments that used to define them -- a mother's approval, a father's nod -- are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. it is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"all parents damage their children. it cannot be helped. youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the springs of its handlers. some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
“I don’t want to get married because I see how my parents are.” – Reality Bites
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.” -Sex & the City
“All families have problems. Mine especially. But I love them without end. Not because they’re blood—but because we rely on each other… when others scurry away. We can not talk for weeks, and we can pick up right where we left off—in the midst of conversation and friendly embraces. That’s what family is all about.” – JoAnne Golden
"In my daughter's eyes I am a hero. I am strong and wise and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see: she was sent to rescue me. I see who I wanna be in my daughter's eyes." - Martina McBride, "in my daughter's eyes"
“Napoleon's mother couldn't make it to his coronation. But when he commissioned it, Napoleon told David to paint her in as if she were there, right in the center. Even though she couldn't be there physically he brought her into his life through sheer force of will. There to share in his greatness.” – smallville
“It's weird how random memories can just pop into your head, huh? When I was in second grade, I was afraid to go to school because I thought my mom would disappear while I was gone and never come back. I wouldn't even get on the bus in the morning until she promised she'd be there when I got home. Sure enough, every day, there she was when I walked in the door.” – smallville
"Family should always hug, regardless of how they feel about each other." - Desperate Housewives
“Family. There is nothing more important. They're the ones who show up when we are in trouble. The ones who push us to succeed. The ones who help keep our secrets.” - Desperate Housewives
“Fitting in with the outside world, respectability, suitability, conformity, were never high on my priority list; neither was normalcy. I admit: I cultivated arrogance. The world would be our school; I wanted to learn it and teach it to you.” – loverboy
“I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep. I spend my weekends buying tutus. I'm learning to sew. I'm Mr. Napkin Head!” – the holiday
“Every one of our parents does some considerable emotional damage and from what I've heard it just might be the best part of being a parent.” - Scrubs
“I am the mother and you are the daughter. In some cultures, that means you have to do what I say. ” – Gilmore Girls
“And although we certainly had our struggles and heart aches over the years we’re a family of survivors and we will always be.” - charmed
"The thing about family is that you don't necessarily like what they do but you stick by them." - grey's anatomy
