A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens. Pam Brown More Quotes by Pam Brown More Quotes From Pam Brown 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. Pam Brown sillyweatherfriendship Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. Pam Brown petfeetsweet Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. Pam Brown dadfamilysong 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. Pam Brown distancefriendshipwar 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. Pam Brown siblinglonelyhome One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. Pam Brown cathomeinspirational A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. Pam Brown emotionalhousefriendship 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. Pam Brown horsedreambeautiful 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. Pam Brown sisterindulge-insibling If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. Pam Brown sistersiblingfunny When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? Pam Brown sororitysistersibling An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. Pam Brown sistersiblingsorrow 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. Pam Brown kneescathope For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder. Pam Brown familymotherheart 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. Pam Brown religiousdoganimal Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. Pam Brown grandmawisemother A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives. Pam Brown bearsdoegiving Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five. Pam Brown sistersiblingfunny For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. Pam Brown lastsnaturespring 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. Pam Brown catselfsecret
