“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.” IfsWorldYearsMayTwoHomeRememberNamesWishFamilyRecordsMissingExpressionMaterialsProudPeriodsRelationFaultsForgottenCome UpCommittedNobleAppealsFollyFortyAssetsBe ProudBack HomeBrowsLaurelsProud Of YouFamily Name Author:Corra May Harris
“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.” CharacterFeelingsHomeMightCareFatherGivenFamilyKnowingMissingOughtConcernLettersLongingTendernessNot KnowingAdvise Author:John Adams
“As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.” IfsThinkingLooksDoneKidsTogetherJobsOpportunityMemoriesChanceFamilyCareersMissingMy FamilyCoachesCoaching Author:John Madden
“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?” WholeFeelingsFamilyPiecesMissingBrokenConnectedOne PieceInspirational Family LoveMysterious Benedict Society Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.” FamilyBreakMissingBreakupBreak UpHintsThanksgiving Day Author:Robert Frost
“Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.” IfsWayTogetherCertainFamilyPiecesMissingFitPuzzlesOne PieceMissing It Author:Richard Schiff
“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.” IfsStoriesFamilyViolenceMissingTelevisionAverageRogerDepravityCrispsAllan Poe Author:Quentin Crisp