Patchwork Family Quotes

#1. It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.'

Heidi

#2. In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

Kenneth Keniston

#3. A good life is a collection of happy moments.

Denis Waitley

#4. Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?

William Blake

#5. If your mother had any idea we were talking about this, she'd skin me alive. I'm not being metaphorical about that. I think she could actually, literally skin me. She gets these wild eyes sometimes. There's Cossack blood in her; I'd bet anything.

Claudia Gray

#6. Islamic Paradise Garden," the

Steven Nightingale

#7. I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Jennifer Ouellette

#8. One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

Lil' Kim

#9. When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Carl Hiaasen

#10. The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.

F.R. Leavis

#11. Consolidation isn't new, though ... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

Mike Wilson

#12. Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

#13. Scraps of love
torn and tattered
faded, scattered
trashed
threads of hope
frayed and tangled
broken, mangled
dashed
backing, buttons
yarn and batting
quilted tenderly
wrapped up in
this warm repair
my patchwork family

Wendelin Van Draanen

#14. Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan