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....

And so, as the mob backs away to give them space… as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as...

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be...

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet–it’s the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and...

We loved each other. We fought for each other. When worlds collapsed we were buried in the rubble together and when we were dug out of the rubble and rescued we all celebrated together.

The problem is that we don’t believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be...

And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives...

That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he’d have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious egg if he’d had a therapist, and the dream made him wish he...

This was long before the term ‘single-parent family’ came into use; back then it was a ‘broken home’…

I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and...

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

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,...

The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

…But that’s just the thing, right? Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common...

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.