Family Quote by Elise Hooper

“Afterwards, we don’t head straight back to work. Instead, we stop at McDonald’s. Kristy gets a Happy Meal. Cora gets like four pies, which…

— Hannah Johnson

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

“...for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.”

— alcott

“Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame”

— Patrick Dennis

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Whether she was writing to tell her followers about a local cheesemaker, a new farm-to-table restaurant, or what to do with an exotic heirloom…

— Barbara Delinsky

“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear rather than…

— Harvey H. Jackson

“They spent the rest of the afternoon trudging back up the hill carrying their groceries, but the heaviness of cucumbers and limes was nothing…

— Lemony Snicket

“It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than…

— Betty Smith

“When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more organized than she was. She…

— Victoria Kahler

“Just in case, he had asked Ms. Townson to call him if William talked about leaving town. He hadn’t, obviously, making it possible now…

— Jay Bell

“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for…

— Joyce Lankester Brisley