Quotes About Family
She'd told Gustav never to cry. But it seemed that this rule didn't apply to her, because there were times, late at night, when Gustav would creep out of his room to find Emilie weeping over the pages of the Matzlingerzeitung. At these moments, her breath often smelled of aniseed and she would be clutching a glass clouded with yellow liquid, and Gustav felt afraid of these things - of her aniseed breath and the dirty glass and his mother's tears.
~ Rose Tremain
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Money doesn't make you happy, Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
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So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?
~ Roxanne St. Claire
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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling...
~ Rudyard Kipling
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four tumbling, squealing cubs
~ Rudyard Kipling
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when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Indeed, we are very grateful to Shere Khan! Shall I tell him of your gratitude? said Tabaqui. Out! snapped Father Wolf. Out and hunt with thy master. Thou hast done harm enough for one night. I go, said Tabaqui quietly. Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets. I might have saved myself the message. Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little
~ Rudyard Kipling
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As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Dobrý lov vám vÅ¡em, kdo jste z mé krve
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Before you lose your children, you can talk about it-as a possibility, I mean [...] But when the thing that you only imagined actually happens, you quickly discover that you can barely speak of it. Your story is jumbled and mumbled, out of sync and unfocused. At least that's how it has been for me.
~ Russell Banks
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Oh, yes, said Mother, you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.
~ Russell Hoban
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He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.
~ Russell Hoban
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Mama wept openly. "If I don't die now," she cried, "there is no death.
~ Ruth Gruber
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Thirty-nine. A widow. Trying to fill her sons' needs. Trying to be both mother and father. Careful not to demand too much of the boys.
~ Ruth Gruber
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His father is out cutting wood, so he goes to his mother. 'Mother, I must away and see the world, or I shall go mad.' Says his mother, 'If you must go, go you must, and God go with you! I will bake you a cake. Will you have a little cake with my blessing, or a big cake with my cursing?' Says Jack, 'Make me a big cake, mother. It will last longer.' His mother makes him a big cake, and he sets out. And she is standing on the roof of the house, calling curses after him as far as she can see him.
~ Ruth Manning-Sanders
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What ails people, they can't let their kids alone, he thought, turning back into the barn. As if their kids was property they owned, and not livin', breathin' people.
~ Ruth Moore
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The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.
~ Ruth Myers
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How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?
~ Ruth Ozeki
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As I sat by my mother's side and held her hand and watched her, I remember thinking, I'm going to do this too, some day. This is what dying looks like. This is what Dad looked like when he died, and what I'm going to look like, too. Like Mom and Dad. It was comforting to know what I would look like. It made death a little less frightening, a little more intimate, a little more dear.
~ Ruth Ozeki
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It was the most ordinary thing in the world, but it felt like we were doing something illegal, lovers or something, because in Japan dads don't generally hug and kiss their kids. Don't ask me why. They just don't. But we kissed and hugged because we were American, at least in our hearts, and then we'd both step away really fast in case anyone was watching.
~ Ruth Ozeki
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When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But she noticed other things, too -- the way she herself felt acutely visible with the baby in her arms, and the way some people's faces lit up when they saw a child. His warm weight was like living ballast, thrumming with energy, giving her substance. Folks were drawn to that.
~ Ruth Ozeki
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