Scattered Family Quotes

#1. Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Charles William Eliot

#2. I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the homicide detectives there."
- Gabriella Giovanni, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

Kristi Belcamino

#3. Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

Bayard Taylor

#4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film.

Deyth Banger

#5. 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

#6. Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

Richard Asher

#7. Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

John Pomfret

#8. If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Arab society revolves around the extended family.
No one had "no family." But Palestinians, who became scattered and
dispossessed following the Nakbe, proved so many exceptions to Arab
society.

Susan Abulhawa

#10. It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

Aaron Brookner

#11. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

Patricia Richardson

#12. Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

Donna Lynn Hope

#13. I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.

Blake Crouch

#14. She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. Let your dreams and passion be heard. It is your life . Your one short life. Your vision is waiting to be realised. Go get it.

Timi Nadela

#16. I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas.

Tiffany Reisz

#17. The Baudelaires looked up and saw their guardian standing in the doorway of Violet's

Lemony Snicket

#18. It's not the hurt pride. It's the lack of love. It's gut wrenching. I mean, a family is an attempt to create a private world of trust in a storm and then it just all gets blown to shit and all the bits get scattered and lost. Everything falls apart.

Daniel Watkins

#19. Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?

Mary Balogh

#20. Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered,

Howe Gelb

#21. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

John Kendrick Bangs

#23. Even in an argument, a person who loves more won't keep down the phone first.

Subhasis Das

#24. We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.

Wayne Dyer