All Quotes By Tag: Family

“Trevor, make sure your woman is the woman in your life. Don’t be one of those men who makes his wife compete with his mother. A man with a wife cannot be beholden to his mother.”

“May the love we have for each other be a perfect reflection of the love God has for us.”

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

“He’s giving me that look – sympathetic but also exasperated and mystified, like How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?”

“It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”

“Family is the foundation of life.”

“I hope when you experience deep sadness you have the courage to redirect your lifeI hope you appreciate the value of time and never allow money to consume you”

“Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.”

“She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon – burned into the crust.But she’s wearing these dark glassesin the kitchen at ten o’clockin the morning – everything nice -as she watches me break offa piece, bring it to my mouth,and blow on it. My daughter’s kitchen,in winter. I fork the pie inand tell myself to stay out of it.She says she loves him. No waycould it be worse.”

“Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain.”

“They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and–conversely–the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.”

“My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury”

“I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead,” she replied, an acid tone in her voice. “Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop to my nephew, who will then be able to afford to bring a very good wife from Pakistan. In exchange, I will be given houseroom and no doubt, the honor of taking care of several small children of other family members.”The Major was silent. He was at once appalled and also reluctant to hear any more. This was why people usually talked about the weather.”

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society’s main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.”

“If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.”