My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother’s judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking...

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

I have a spreadsheet of all the women I’d like to spread and sheet. Your mom is on my list. So is your grandma, may she rest in peace.

It doesn’t matter what story we’re telling, we’re telling the story of family.

Maybe I will buy my nephew an aquarium for his next birthday. It’s got to be better than the bathroom sink, which is where my brother is keeping him now.

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

Never plan a picnic’ Father said. ‘Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

I never knew my father. I saw him at a party once, but he never walked over and introduced himself to me.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be...

She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian...

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

A Christian will find it most beneficial to practice secret worship, corporate worship, and family worship. They are all important for our life in Christ. They each bear a necessary weight, and they all inform...

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people...

Donit kill her now, just when we’ve gone to all that trouble to rescue her,” said Jeffrey.

Small fruit is better than big words.

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the...

A mother’s love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Families are wonderful institution,” he said. “I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge....

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some...

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.

Then Henry speaks again. “Did he do it?”I turn to him slowly. “Does it matter?

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack’s mother, and Aliena’s brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that...

I love you, Tess,” he told me, tightening his arms around me as if he would never let go.He’d better not. We’d never let go of each other — not Jayden and me, and not...

Single parents – both women and men – can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to...

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let’s play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.

Diabetes is passed that way — over and down, like a knight in chess.

Ain’t nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can’t understand her. Love her. That’s all you gotta do.

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity.” ~ Ralston to Simon

Work smart, not hard

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind’s determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a...

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn’t like to, in order to protect his family.

It’s the history of who you are, your family and your background, they just take a longer perspective. If it doesn’t happen instantly like Americans want, that’s fine. If I don’t make it, my children...

I can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude!

Funny thing- Morgenstern’s folk’s were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and...

Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes...

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. “It’s going to be so boring here without you. And I’m going to have to deal with Grandmother on my own! You need to e-mail, text, call,...