Quotes of: Middleclass-family Keyword

An important dimension of Tess of the d’Urbervilles is its debt to the oral tradition; to stories about wronged milkmaids, tales of superstition, and stories of love, betrayal and revenge, involving stock figures. This gives Tess of the d’Urbervi...

Thomas Hardy

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE...

Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault

The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were different from children before or after. They were neither dolls nor miniature adults. They were not hidden awa...

The Children's Book

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded by your authority, while you encourage us to burry ourse...

Doomsday Diaries IV: Luke and the Lion

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential i...

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar objects, with a towel and a washcloth nicely laid out, and from there straight into the heart of family life, despite there alw...

Karl Ove Knausgard

I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a "dysfunctional" family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of the reason was that all of my extended kin had families at least as dysfunctional ...

Carlfred Broderick

There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name, But I know his home and family, Because I know we feel the same, And it hurts me when he's hungry, Or when his children cry, I too am a father, That little one is mine It's about time we be...

John Denver

Christy Cummings: It's interesting, we have kind of a family dynamic going on here which pretty much mirrors what I grew up with: I'm the mommy slash daddy, the taskmaster, the disciplinarian. Sherri Ann Cabot: Mr. Punishment over here. Christy Cummi...

Best in Show

This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, star...

Alyson Noel

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Caddie Woodlawn's Family

The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

Cain's Identity

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Family is a transitive property.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Are you sure you don’t have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family?

Bad to the Bone

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

The Blood of the Lamb

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Cher

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Judith Leiber

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Orson Pratt

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

L'Wren Scott

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Nick Mason