#ily

It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family. ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#fathers #family

We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about. ↗

— John Varley

#post-apocalypse #sci-fi #survival #family

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had. ↗

— Rebecca Stead

#family #life #family

I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken. ↗

— Lisa De Jong

#dane-wright #plastic-hearts #family

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive. ↗

— Dena Tyson

#family #inspirational #love #family

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#family

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#family

She wrapped her arms around his neck and gazed into the face of the man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. "Just promise to love me forever." "This is one story that's going to have a happy ending," he told her, and he lowered his mouth to hers. ↗

— Shannon Stacey

#keri-daniels #family

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#family

I never thought I’d say I’m so very glad you’re a rogue instead of an angel. But I suppose it’s all right as long as you’re my rogue - Rebecca - ↗

— Johanna Lindsey

#family