family

"Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of bat…"

"Die for the Virgin, for your mother the Empress, for the royal family. The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honor and glory."

"When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still ea…"

"The climate in Sweden is rather the same as in Canada. It makes me feel at home."

"The one advantage of being childless is that one can choose one's children and so avoid the bizarre game of chance in which one passes one's best — or one's worst — genes to one's poor innocent offspr…"

"I am Chiz Escudero, a Filipino, a son, a husband, father, and a Bicolano public servant. With the grace of God and the Blessed Mother, I humbly offer myself to the mission of serving you as your Vice …"

"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one."

"MINGUS! at sonic.net"

"If my son Hunter was here, first thing he would give me a kiss and say, "Dad, do you need anything?" Always worried about me."

"The Complete Works of Emerson in searchable texts"

"Band of Brothers - Fratelli al fronte"

"I could develop finer and newer blowing techniques because of the power my lungs acquired through the physical exercises my father personally taught me when I was training to become a wrestler,"

"A rich man had a garden and two gardeners. One of these gardeners was very lazy and did not work; but when the owner came to the garden, the lazy man would get up and fold his arms and say, "How beaut…"

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

"Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."

"Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world"

"Red held me at arm’s length, grinning. “Welcome to the family, Half Moon,” he said."

"It is between the stirrup and the ground, Brother; but you may amend by replying."

"Henson was, by all accounts, a bit of a saint. Read any biography of the man, and you will walk away almost suspicious of his overwhelming decency and personal integration, his unfailing optimism and …"

"Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9 . Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him saying, 'War is the father and king of all,' etc."