#other

I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you’ll be in trouble, I can tell you that much.” Poul-Erik’s Mother The Informer ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#mothers #scandinavian-mysteries #home

...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise. ↗

— Melanie Shankle

#life

Life - with or without softener- is hard ↗

— Kate Papas

#divorce #greece #humor #international #marriage

She loves him the way a mother should love their child. Thoroughly. Completely. To her, he's the most important person in the world and I'm so very happy they have that. ↗

— Nyrae Dawn

#mother-son #family

I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does. ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#family #friends #love #mother #family

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#family #fatherhood #love #motherhood #parenthood

My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the day she died my battlefront stepped down and threw away their shields, allowing the gunshots to slip through the second her heart stopped beating. From that moment onwards I was left wounded, and for those seventeen years without her my wounds bled-wounds no stitch could ever repair. ↗

— Rebecah McManus

#father #love #mother #romance #romance-novels

This is my country, that is your country, these are the conceptions of narrow souls, to the liberal minded the whole world is a family ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#country #family #inpirational-quotes #liberal #motivational-quotes

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#child #mother #reality #life

...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#earning #enough #family #materialism #money