Quotes of: Family-ties Keyword

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized...

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

What was the difference between Anne Frank and any other 15 year old girl living the same nightmare? Nothing! Aside from the fact that Anne spoke through her writings while others kept silent. Someone very special to me recently asked how can I write...

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me...

Kyung-sook Shin

Some mental healthcare workers are aware of clients with high needs, such as dissociative disorders and personality disorders, who have histories of sexual abuse (contact offences), usually from early childhood, involving two or more adults acting to...

Michael Salter

Henry Barthes: Y'know you can't... you can't keep living on the street... Erica: I'm not, I mean, I'm staying here with you. Henry Barthes: Well, you can't continue to stay here with me. I'm not good for you... Erica: That's not true. You're like, th...

Detachment

[last lines] John Smith: Usually I'm quoting someone else's words. The least I can do is give you some John Smith originals. They won't be poetic. But they'll be the truth. Yes, prison desensitizes you. But it also forces you to see what's most impor...

Felon

James T. Kirk: I watched you open fire in a room full of unarmed Starfleet officers. You killed them in cold blood. Khan: Marcus took my crew from me! James T. Kirk: You are a murderer! Khan: He used my friends to control me. I tried to smuggle them ...

Star Trek Into Darkness

We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of war in Germany. Of course, I had always known that he had served...

Love

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

Caddie Woodlawn's Family

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Caddie Woodlawn's Family

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

The Confessions of a Misfit

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force. Its own flavor. Its own charm and strange.

Charm & Strange

The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.

Country of the Bad Wolfes

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Democracy in America Volume 1

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

Dangerous Angels

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

The Dowry Of Miss Lydia Clark

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Dead in the Family

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.

A Dash of Magic

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Drown

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship