“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” ~Shirley Abbott
'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)
Emily McClelland (at age 7)
'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropologist
'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)
Patrick McClelland (2001- )
'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'
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