Vacker Family Quotes & Sayings

That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back. — Anne Taylor Fleming

Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human. — Fiona Apple

Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together. — Karen Casey

Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly. — Mario Andrew Pei

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company. — Tim O'Brien

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. — Jil Sander