Thwing Family Quotes & Sayings

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom. — Charles Franklin Thwing

God, but the coast here was painfully beautiful, the dark lush greens of the fir trees piercing his brain, the half-raging sky and sea, the surge of salt water against the rocks twinned to the urgent wash of blood through his arteries as he waited for her to kill him or hear him out. Seditious thoughts: there would be nothing too terrible about dying out here, about becoming part of all of this. — Jeff VanderMeer

Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice. — Charles Franklin Thwing

It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life - for all its material good fortune - has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent. — Sebastian Junger

England is governed not by logic but by parliament. — Benjamin Disraeli

My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country. — Lois Lowry

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength! — Sheng Yen

The balding headstones
of the others - quarantined

from their own mothers & sisters & daughters -
I wondered if they, like us, were strange

alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs. — Jennifer Givhan

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. — John Edward

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. — Rocky Graziano

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. — Adam Sandler