"Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved."
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
"There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour."
Kate Christensen
"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."
Sherman Alexie
"People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?"
Jan Ellison
"My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world."
Michelle Obama
"I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are."
Brett Favre
"Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am."
Rebecca Richards
"She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers."
David Anthony Durham
"Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain."
Nick Cave
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."
Josh Billings
"Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. In countries that have such programs, every single family with an income below a certain level who meets basic program requirements has a right to housing assistance."
Matthew Desmond
"My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes."
Alia Bhatt
"Your father... Doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner."
Susan Cooper
"I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'."
Lisa Murkowski
"It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things could have been for you, for me, and your folks, if literature like this had been around, say, five, ten years ago, when we could’ve all really used it."
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