Quotes About Support

The purpose of the appeal was to open a subscription list by which signatories pledged themselves to support the cost of printing a limited edition, of which they themselves would be entitled to one or more copies, depending on the amount pledged. This was the usual means at the time [1836] of enabling the publication of an expensive book…

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.

To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.

The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity.

Born on St. Valentine's Day in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa was seven years older than Frank Sheeran. Yet both grew to manhood in the same Great Depression, a time when management normally held the upper hand and people struggled just to put food on the table. Jimmy Hoffa's father, a coal miner, died when he was seven. His mother worked in an auto plant to support her children. Jimmy Hoffa quit school at age fourteen to go to work to help his mother. Hoffa

In sum, the 12 steps are not a road to recovery, let alone the road to recovery. They are, instead, a road to a substitute dependency—a dependency upon AA rather than upon alcohol.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)"

The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)

The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.)

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

To me, what constitutes a family are those who you choose to make your family. Whether they're related through bloodlines or only timelines, they're the people

I think we can survive—and resist both US authoritarianism and corporatism while creating a democratic revolution—only if the majority of Americans either become the kind of activist I describe in this book—or support those who do.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.