#ily

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#family #dreams

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#family

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#family

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#family #humor #family

I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world. ↗

— Susan Griscom

#so-true #family

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can. ↗

— Janice Hardy

#friends #neigbors #family

I just want you to see out there, where it's blue and wild and full of adventure. And then I want you to see in here, where there's a warm yellow glow and your family is making dinner and your mom and dad are dancing and your little sister is hoping that you'll throw a smile her way. ↗

— Melissa C. Walker

#family

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes. ↗

— Robert St. John

#south #family

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#catch #francis-schaeffer #measels #presuppositions #schaeffer