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“There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.”

Book:Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

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“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past.”

Family

Book:The Monsters of Templeton

Source: The Monsters of Templeton

“Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers... (Matthew 12:48)”

Mother Family Brothers Disciples

Book:Holy Bible: New International Version

Source: Holy Bible: New International Version

“Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.”

Life Lessons

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

“When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home”

Family

Book:The Human Comedy

Source: The Human Comedy

“Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else.”

Church Family

Book:Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

Source: Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Raised on a cotton farm in rural Georgia, as many white/negro families did to make a meager living, my daddy had a saying. 'All a poor man has is his good name and good credit. God help him if he looses either of those.' I still believe that.”

Family Farm

Book:Murder in Cleveland, GA

Source: Murder in Cleveland, GA

“Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.”

Humor Family Personal

Book:Through the Tiger's Eye

Source: Through the Tiger's Eye

“I want to get away from the kinship structures that are supposed to hold me together. To mess up the story I have been told about myself. To hold the story upside down by its tail.”

Family

Book:Hot Milk

Source: Hot Milk

“Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing blood wasn't enough to make someone proper family; she'd take Cook over most of her blood relatives, any day.”

Family Family Relationships Relatives

Book:A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Source: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

“Leah: I want those gubs Mommy. Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves' Aaden and Leah try and say gloves Leah: Gloves! Kate: Good job! Aaden: Gubs! Kate: No”

Children Family Parenting Motherhood Mothers Gloves Reality Tv

Author:Kate Gosselin

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