182 quotes found
“...Im sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...”
“Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concer...”
“You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large.... Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.”
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world ...”
“Theres no such thing as half family.”
“As for you, do not wait until all lights are green to take off. Do not wait for all things to be in order such that they can see the future. You have to start were you are. You have to start now. Y...”
“In the beginning God did not make a church or cathedral, he made a family. In the beginning God did not appoint apostles, or prophets, or pastors etc, he appointed a husband and a wife in the coven...”
“A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.”
“Diplomacy is an art of tackling our enemies. Using diplomacy on dear ones, in order to make measurable gains, is just like using a sword in place of a needle. We will be left bare very soon, and vi...”
“I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only norm...”
“This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.”
“I suppose that's the reason I believe that as long as there is someone in charge of the household, someone who can maintain order among its members, someone who is clearly mature and established as...”
“The blessing begins at home.”
“We may view it as our responsibility to control something that is not in fact within our control and yet fail to exercise the power and authority that we do have over our own behavior. Mothers cann...”
“So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisisthere is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a b...”
“I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.”
“Family is not just blood. It is the person who stands with you when the odds are impossible, the one who cries with you when your sadness is overwhelming. The individual who sacrifice of their time...”
“You daughter is prudish? There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winters face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.”
“..All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first familyin particular, lo...”
“Husband and wife are like a pair of scissors, joined together for life but always moving in opposite directions. If anyone comes in between, they join together and cut them off.”
