Deceptive Family Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act. — Kim Cattrall

Seeking out one more option. Finding someone else who's solved our problem. Asking, "What would have to be true for you to be right?" Ooching as a way to dampen politics. Making big decisions based on core priorities. Running premortems and preparades. Laying down tripwires. Using these techniques will improve the results of your group decisions. — Chip Heath

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships. — Stanley Crawford

According to Auster, proximity is deceptive, and anonymity is not only the misfortune of the masses, of the cities, but also a cancer gnawing away the family and marital unit. Human contact often masks a gulf that only death or distance can bridge. We are separated from others by those very things that also connect us; we are separated from ourselves by the illusion of self-knowledge. Just as we must forget ourselves in order to reach a certain level of self-truth, we must also leave others in order to find them in the prism of memory and separation. That which is closest is often the most enigmatic, and distance, like mourning and wandering, is also an instrument of redemption. — Pascal Bruckner

When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner

A good community, in other words, is a good local economy. — Wendell Berry

If it's to be, it's up to me.
to which I add;
If not now ... then when? — Andrew Toynbee