Better life Quote by Ora-Jay Eash

“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When many people think of the Amish, they think about children walking barefoot or riding their ponies to an Amish school. In earlier years,…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.”

— Sarah Price

“I was looking forward to the adventure of Montana — who wouldn’t? The Amish community there is small and intimate, and the mountains frame…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“By investing in their families and in their communities, not only did they have a better life, they were also able to do what…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“Where we came from in Indiana, the Englisch weren’t so polite. Then again, the Amish usually weren’t polite either. There was a wall between…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“They were tolerant of what most people in town would think of as moral lapses in each other, but quite intolerant of departures in…

— Alice Munro

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

“Elite culture was deplored as shallow by the growing middle classes, who placed emphasis on family and intimacy. Denmark’s history, its egalitarianism, liberalism, and…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“It is in a home and with a family that values are usually acquired, traditions are fostered, and commitments to others are established. There…

— James E. Faust

“farmhouses and shacks, the families settling”

— Colson Whitehead

“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by…

— Elizabeth Gilbert