Pam Brown
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.Collection: Courage
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.Collection: Pet
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.Collection: Home
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.Collection: Dreams
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.Collection: Friendship
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.Collection: Nature
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.Collection: Family
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.Collection: Friendship
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.Collection: Cat
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.Collection: Lonely
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.Collection: Sister
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.Collection: Wise
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?Collection: Sister
If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.Collection: Hope
Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.Collection: Children
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.Collection: Religious
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.Collection: Sister
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.Collection: Friendship
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.Collection: Hope
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.Collection: Sister
A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.Collection: Dog
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.Collection: Love
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.Collection: Funny
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.Collection: Cat
Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.Collection: Fathers Day
It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.Collection: Years
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.Collection: Relationship
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.Collection: Friendship
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.Collection: Encouraging
Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.Collection: Integrity
Bears need people. People need bears.Collection: People
For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.Collection: Family
The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.Collection: Sleep
From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.Collection: Serenity
Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.Collection: Father
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.Collection: Sister
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.Collection: Horse
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.Collection: Giving
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.Collection: Funny
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.Collection: Sister
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.Collection: Christmas
However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.Collection: Mother
Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.Collection: Giving
Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.Collection: Sister
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.Collection: Beautiful
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.Collection: Wise
Horses lend us the wings we lack.Collection: Horse
Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.Collection: Love
It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.Collection: Book