Quotes from Pam Brown

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.