Pam Brown Quotes

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.