4 Mitch Albom Quotes on Family

Mitch Albom quotes on family

13. All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

14. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

15. 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.

19. 'Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.'