When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

We will not always be here, so let’s make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.

Meadow’s Waltz…the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began…

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

And he doesn’t care what you’re wearing or what you’ve brought him. He just wants you there. Wanting him. And time is running out. He won’t love you unconditionally that much longer. And soon he...

The purpose of family is to preserve life,’ Aunt Patti said. ‘We treat family members the way we’re supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I’ve never been so proud of you in all my life. You’ve always been beautiful;...

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold...

For his children, he would move mountains.

Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit.

Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.

The family that matters.

I’m sorry you don’t like coming back here,” her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they’d had. How could Emily explain: it wasn’t her mother or Kersey she’d disowned, but her earlier self,...

There it is.”And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again.”The Happiness Machine,”...

Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable...

Había dos ángeles en la familia, además del niño, que era yo. Cuando mi mamá hablaba de mí, decía como disculpándose: éste es el niño. O es el pilón.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

For me, reading begins at home.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the day she died my battlefront stepped down and threw away their shields, allowing...

He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and he hated the silverware designed in flowers, some pieces scratched almost beyond recognition....

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone...

Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo.

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove...

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life? You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an...

Forgive me, my sons. I’ve been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.

That looked like love to me, when you put a brave face on your heart breaking because it was what the other person needed.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation

The alternative to rule is not freedom but the unconstitutional (and often unconscious) tyranny of the most selfish member.

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought)...

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

A family with all creditable members who can bank upon each other to build a healthy, trustworthy and sustainable relationship is truly and happily rich.

My grandmotherhad no time for old,no matter how her face crinkledor her days folded like an apron aroundher middle.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

C’est affreux ces rendez-vous annuels qui autorisent les gens à faire un bilan de votre vie, trois questions et leurs yeux vous disent “tu n’as pas avancé”, au mieux avec inquiétude, au pire avec mépris.

Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband’s. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick....

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

A mother is an individual who’d go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That’s the most horrifying individual you’ll ever meet.

Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don’t know where your people have been.

A loving family is the biggest treasure a person can ever have..

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse’s hat on while your father,...

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely...