#ily

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#home #i #living #model #should

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#also #areas #been #dies #funny

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#each #families #family #happy #own

The family is the school of duties - founded on love. ↗

— Felix Adler

#family #founded #love #school

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days

People always think that they'll never break. They'll never give in, CIA operatives somehow crack, but not them ↗

— Kitty Thomas

#food

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#big #big family #family #hope #many

Some folks say that you can’t get rid of a problem until you shuck it. So, brother, let’s start shucking. ↗

— Richard Puz

#humor #inspiration #love-hurts #inspirational