Quotes of: Family-farm Keyword

I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what constitutes 'a family unit' to such a tiny scale that it...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving...

First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity

In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring f...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Maggie Fitzgerald: You got any family, boss? Frankie Dunn: What? Maggie Fitzgerald: You're spending so much time with me. I didn't know if you had any. Frankie Dunn: Well, I've got a daughter, Katie. Maggie Fitzgerald: Well that's family. Frankie Dun...

Million Dollar Baby

Giovanni Cappa: This Johnny Boy is like your mister Groppi... a little crazy. It's nice you should help him out because of his family and our family but watch yourself... Don't spoil anything. His whole family has problems... his cousin, the girl who...

Mean Streets

Ich will meine Familie nicht verlieren. Immerhin gehöre ich ja dazu. Was bin ich ohne sie? Ein Stück? Ein Teil? Muss jeder Mensch einmal ohne Familie sein, um ein Mensch zu werden?

Crazy

Pam. Listen.' 'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.' 'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.' 'Fuck a zombie!' - Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

Fields of Corn

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

The Fourth Eye

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

The Family Fang

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change.

Blended Families An Anthology

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. But I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a c...

Jordan Bridges

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.

Kirk Cameron

The power of podcasting is pretty remarkable. It is such an amazing way to mobilize fans. It's almost like they're part of your family. They probably listen to you more than they listen to their own families. I know that's true for me. So there is a ...

Scott Aukerman

The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask. -Rick Ridgeway

The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers