Quotes About Support

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

What a difference having a friend makes.

My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid

You're lucky your mother died,' she said. I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?' Between sobs she said, 'Your mother would have stayed if she could. My mother chose to leave me. She's still out there somewhere. I wish she had died instead.' I sat down next to her and put my arm around her. 'I'll never leave you.' She laid her head on my shoulder. 'I know.

Humans need to belong. Humans have always needed tribes. Today we find tribes in family or clubs or religion. What happens when we fall out of them? I suppose, in prehistoric times, it was fatal to be cast out of a tribe, to be exiled or excommunicated from the group, away from the people we love and need. Exile from the tribe is a form of execution.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

he were in a shark tank and reached up to me for help, I'd throw chum in the water.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor's afraid for Michael and so she's upset. And since he isn't here, she took it out on you.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

La seule chose qui soit pire que la mort, c'est d'assister à celle des gens qu'on aime.

Everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.

My father served in Vietnam. When I was young he told me that everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.