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| Garden City GiftsBaskets | | A house that does not have one worn, | | Making the decision to have a child is |
| Murrells Inlet GiftsBaskets | | comfy chair in it is soulless. | | momentous. It is to decide forever to |
| Myrtle Beach GiftsBaskets | | | | have your heart go walking around |
| | | Like other parties of the kind, it was first | | outside your body. |
| | | silent, then talky, then argumentative, | | |
| | | then disputatious, then unintelligible, | | If nature had arranged that husbands |
| | | then altogether, then inarticulate, and | | and wives should have children |
| | | then drunk. When we had reached the | | alternatively, there would never be |
| | | last step of this glorious ladder, it was | | more than three in a family. |
| | | difficult to get down again without | | |
| | | stumbling. | | My father used to play with my brother |
| | | | | and me in the yard. Mother would |
| | | Never raise your hand to your kids. It | | come out and say, "You're tearing up |
| | | leaves your groin unprotected. | | the grass." "We're not raising grass," |
| | | | | Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." |
| | | I keep coming back to you in my head, | | |
| | | but you couldn't know that, and I have | | |
| | | no carbons. | | Friends are family you choose for |
| | | | | yourself. |
| | | Love is metaphysical gravity. | | |
| | | | | The best helping hand that you will |
| | | The moment a child is born, the mother | | ever receive is the one at the end of |
| | | is also born. She never existed before. | | your own arm. |
| | | The woman existed, but the mother, | | |
| | | never. A mother is something | | Youth would be an ideal state if it came |
| | | absolutely new. | | a little later in life. |
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| | | We loved with a love that was more | | Birthdays are good for you. Statistics |
| | | than love. | | show that the people who have the |
| | | | | most live the longest. |
| | | Unless one decorates one's house for | | |
| | | oneself alone, best leave it bare, for | | A birthday is just the first day of another |
| | | other people are walleyed. | | 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy |
| | | | | the trip. |
| | | None of us got where we are solely by | | |
| Hilton Head Island GiftsBaskets | | pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. | | Just about the time a woman thinks her |
| West Columbia GiftsBaskets | | We got here because somebody - a | | work is done, she becomes a |
| Greenwood GiftsBaskets | | parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony | | grandmother. |
| Beaufort GiftsBaskets | | or a few nuns - bent down and helped | | |
| Spartanburg GiftsBaskets | | us pick up our boots. | | A friend is the one who comes in when |
| Hilton Head Island GiftsBaskets | | | | the whole world has gone out. |
| Spartanburg GiftsBaskets | | You must be at the end of your rope. I | | |
| | | felt a tug. | | Never go to bed mad. Stay up and |
| | | | | fight. |
| | | One can pay back the loan of gold, but | | |
| | | one dies forever in debt to those who | | Everyone who is born holds dual |
| | | are kind. | | citizenship, in the kingdom of the well |
| | | | | and in the kingdom of the sick. |
| | | Sometimes, when one person is | | Although we all prefer to use only the |
| | | depopulated. | | us is obliged, at least for a spell, to |
| | | | | identify ourselves as citizens of that |
| | | | | other place. |
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