family Quotes

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.