Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. (“The Higgler”)

I promise you, the right man won’t care.

To nebyl sen, Lynne. To byla vzpomínka.

I have no riches in life, but only family who loves me.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren’t 2 faced so look up to the ones that are...

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and...

The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still believes in...

Aber hey, es ist ja nur eine Familie. Es ist ja nur meine Familie. Es ist ja nur alles.

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I...

Make a wish,” said Indigo.Rose made a wish and then asked, “Why?””That’s what I always do. Wish on the moving ones.””Does it matter how fast they move?””I don’t think so.””Can you wish on airplanes, too?””Oh,...

Perhaps that’s a smile on Delia’s face-but Delia’s half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, “Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. ‘I think it was very...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

I want to bill Billings one penny at a time.” He died with five cents to his name. I was named after him—fifty years after him.

Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait–tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime–for the...

Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.

Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls “Knock and Pray”. He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to “pray… big”.

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

It’s so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it’s harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

It’s not that parents love their children less than in generations past. It’s that they no longer receive consistent societal support for the belief that parenting is their highest priority…TV messages championed rather then detracted...

I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad!

Meow.

Allowance.

A monster’s not a monster to another monster. At least that’s what I thought when I saw my mother-in-law talking to a statue of Stalin.

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Even though our past has a lot to do with who we are today, remember; all that we think, say and do today has everything to do with who we become ~ Donald Pillai

We’re family, right? We foul up and say we’re sorry and let it go.

Johanna sat by the fire every night and worked on her tapestry. Dumfries waited until she was settled in her chair and then draped himself across her feet. It became a ritual for Alex to...

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.

And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change...

I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that’s what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning,...

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it’s not gender that makes a family; it’s love. You don’t need a mother and a father; you don’t necessarily even need two parents. You just...

It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

You don’t do that. You don’t just leave your family. Sticking together… it’s the only way to survive.

Of all the titles that I’ve been privileged to have, the title of ‘dad’ has always been the best.

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru’s saw. My father–my real father–is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time...

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.