#val

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along. ↗

— Karen Chamberlain

#memoir #naval-aviation #naval-history #war #family

Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best. ↗

— Ken Norton

#family-values #fatherhood #family

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family #heritage #identity #morality #past

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time. ↗

— Edith Pargeter

#family #rivalry #family

It is true that as World War II recedes into the mists of time, almost all big-hearted progressives or liberals (or whatever self-congratulatory term they apply to themselves) denounce Nazism and fascism with the utmost ardor. Yet when these odious movements were on the rise, many among the British elite cautioned prudence in dealing with them; and some actually admired them, including members of the royal family and, of course, clerics in the Anglican Church. ↗

— R. Emmett Tyrrell

#family

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. ↗

— William Goldman

#family #funny #miracle-max #s-morgenstern #the-princess-bride

Look at All of them.they always feel that school is like a family. No one is upper or lower class except for few people who never really understood themselves". ↗

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#family

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#chocolate #hurt #little #love #need

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#life #survival #food

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #lies #michael-grant #sanjit #survival