“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
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Author, Humorist
'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'
Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons (1954-)
'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'
Patrick McClelland at age 6
"That's the store that we need to go to and open the door and put our money in." (At age 3. While driving by the new Toys 'R' Us.)
Patrick McClelland (2001- )
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.
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