Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names.

When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

My dad always used to tell me __________________. My dad never told me anything. He had nothing to say, and even less to say to me.

My mom died. Then my dad died. I’ll try to do better next time.

I am somebody’s son, and I know a guy I call “Dad.” Those two things are unrelated.

People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don’t build themselves. So YOU must build your home

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It’s something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the...

I’m your father, Silverkit, and that means I will always keep my promises.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man’s true continuity is established: Alexander’s direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue,...

Whoa, that’s the kind of little sister I can dig!” said Edison.”Yes, we’re all alike,” I said. “We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your...

Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They’re not ‘gubs’ they’re ‘gloves’Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No

When you make a commitment, you build trust. when you keep it, you build trust.

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me.

I’m sure it’s not any wish of mine that I’m born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I’d be born the lowest and coarsest-minded...

I hope this book will inspire the kitchen con-artist in you, increase fruit and veggie consumption in your family, and motivate you to become an Accidental Cook. Pass it on!

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Remember,even if we can’t see them, those we love are always with us.

I pause to catch my breath, looking around at all the toys he’s paid for and never once enjoyed with his son.

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends,...

What if all I’d ever known was how it had been for the past three years – me being an unwanted outsider in my own family?I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might...

I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a...

Our family was starting. We kept on moving with our young lives, shortly afterward and took Ben Young with us everywhere. But pretty soon Pegi started noticing that Ben was not doing the things some...

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

In two words,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the...

My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all.

So that’s how you’re going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that’s left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love...

Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way...

And this,’ Ivan said to the children gathered around, ‘is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord–no matter what comes–and when He answers our prayers, no matter how...

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

may my touchalways…be tenderas i would strokemother’s cheekswhen she cried.

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Daring to make a difference in today’s youth-one page at a time

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

It’s funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more...

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don’t we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or...

But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for...