#ily

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #obligation #teaching

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad #heartily #laughed #man #once

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#did #everyone #films #i #like

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#channel #delaware #family #itself #minded

O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and a straw hat. She imagined the puppy, having crapped on the rug, looking up at her, going, Cain’t hep it. But no. Had she come from a perfect place? Everything was transmutable. She imagined the puppy grown up, entertaining some friends, speaking to them in a British accent: My family of origin was, um, rather not, shall we say, of the most respectable... Ha ha, wow, the mind was amazing, always cranking out these— ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #puppy #family

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#admiration #child #civic #courage #doctor

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#family #i #jimmy #lie #never

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #fascinated #you