Quotes About Family

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that's why the world calls her grandmother.

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It's the liniment working.

Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.

Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.

A garden of love grows in a grandmother's heart.

A grandma's heart is a patchwork of love.

It was only a few months after their father's death. His loss had left a wound in Darlene's chest that felt physical, a perpetual ache.

For the past three months, Darlene had waited for the fact of her father's death to reach every corner of her mind. She had been through this process when Mama died; she knew how it would unfold. Right now, each morning was its own little funeral. She would wake up and listen for Daddy's footsteps, sniff the air for his pipe smoke, open her eyes, and remember. Every morning she lost him...

But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

I like hugs and I like kisses, But what I really love is help with the dishes!

Hugs are great gifts... The only wrapping is arms!

This is my favorite place — inside your hug.

a wife and numerous progeny. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked

He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.

I've seen workaholics who've destroyed people. They become obsessed. They send out terrible messages. They make people feel guilty if they don't show up on Saturday. What a stupid message. People should be giving that time to their families.

Genghis Khan had well-founded and unshakable faith in his daughters and the other women around him. "Whoever can keep a house in order," he said, "can keep a territory in order." As the military campaigns grew longer, the division of labor solidified into a division of command authority. At its heart, the dual-shaft system functioned quite simply. She ruled at home; he served abroad. Even

Only a few details have survived from Temujin's earliest childhood, and they do not suggest that he was highly valued by his father. His father once accidentally left him behind when they moved to another camp.

for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it