#ily

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#love #family

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#family

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#stability #structure #woman #family

Though I may be efficient at the family table, I linger at the table for two. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#family

..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, “There. My village,” and that’s how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #sense-of-place #family

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

— Vivi Anna

#erotica #vivi-anna #family

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

My family's dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this. ↗

— Yinsen

#family

It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#cares #family #much #others #part

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#certain #certain kinds #go #i #installation