#ld

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#bald #classmates #grey #middle #middle age

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born. ↗

— Robert Drewe

#parents #raising-children #family

A family is no place for privacy! ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#dreams

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies. ↗

— Bauvard

#family #fathers #funny #humor #love-affairs

We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman’s boat.” Johannes aka ‘BB’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#noir-fiction #scandinavian-mysteries #world-war-two #family

Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head. ↗

— David Baldacci

#wish-you-well #family

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#uncle-tom-s-cabin #victorian #wilde #witty #death

When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#family

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#hold #hour #i #i think #per

I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids. ↗

— Sabrina Vourvoulias

#family #orphans #family