"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."
- Jim Bishop
Love
"Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18."
- Jim Bishop
Awareness
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
- Jim Bishop
Insight
"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."
- Jim Bishop
Optimism
"At eighteen, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."
- Jim Bishop
Optimism
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature