The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree……unless that tree’s growing on top of a hill.

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren’t people we’re related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult...

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying...

And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can’t we talk about it? Why can’t we ever talk about it?

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to help liberate those who had fallen under the Axis occupation. The country rallied...

I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such as getting up every morning to go to work to support my family...

The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don’t need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born...

It was a family joke that Lydia’s domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

The experience of death is going to get more and more painful, contrary to what many people believe. The forthcoming euthanasia will make it more rather than less painful because it will put the emphasis...

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

Because that’s what families do for each other. They support each other, whether they agree with the other person’s decisions or not. It’s called love.” ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it’s probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

I’ll love you forever,I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just...

At least wait until you’re alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven’t had our dinner yet!

Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.

As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of...

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with...

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the...

I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized people on the edges of Europe from whom I descend. Both my parents...

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that’s why God desires to use them as...

What is it that you want from me?

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It’s just that simple.

It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.

And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you’re just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you’ll go to the very...

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Sabeis como é, s’o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu’o filho seja árvore. S’o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

And maybe that’s it- if your family is broken and ruined, go find another one, or better yet, go make another one.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents,...

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

You ask ‘Are you a man or a demon?’ Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. “NO?

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

Family is a transitive property.

Let’s just go in and enjoy ourselves,’ Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and...

Der Mann ist das Haupt der Familie – und die Frau ist der Hals, auf dem es sich dreht.

Komandoo Nicolas Kahima Kankiriho (‘Kahima the Warrior’) alizaliwa katika Wilaya ya Bushenyi, Ankole, kusini-magharibi mwa Uganda, Julai 24, 1954, mtoto wa tano kuzaliwa, katika familia ya watoto sita ya Nicodemas Kankiriho; mzee wa heshima wa...

Fred, you next,” the plump woman said. “I’m not Fred, I’m George,” said the boy. “Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can’t you tell I’m George?” “Sorry, George, dear.” “Only joking, I am Fred,”...

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots...

There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you’d seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn’t remember not knowing. Even if the past was a complicated mess, as you aged,...