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Quotes About Support

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.
~ Author Unknown
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are sprinkles on the donut of life.
~ Internet meme
Hanging my head and my heart with it, that you sorrowed alone...
~ Emily Dickinson
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.
~ Italian proverb
A family is a resting-place from worldly cares...
~ Rev. J. Long, 1881
A family is a small kingdom, a kingdom is a large family...
~ Author Unknown
It is easier to become a father than to be one.
~ German proverb
When fire is cried and danger is nigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~ The Fireman's Journal, 1879
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~ Author Unknown
If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's spouse.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighting — one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~ Author Unknown
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
~ French proverb
The function of a friend is not to have a function.
~ Detlef Cordes
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles"
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.
~ Terri Guillemets
You find out who your real friends are when your autocorrect mixes up your and you're.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
~ Author Unknown
Panting to help the dear ones and yet not knowing how, lest any voice bereave them... One who only said "I am sorry" helped me the most when father ceased — it was too soon for language.
~ Emily Dickinson
When Heaven has taken from us some object of our love, how sweet is it to have a bosom whereon to recline our heads, and into which we may pour the torrent of our tears! Grief, with such a comfort, is almost a luxury!
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Grief is a burden but also a friend— It is not grief that wounds your heart but it is grief that heals your heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786