Quotes about Support

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existance.

Oh indeed! Our and the Wilfers' Mutual Friend, my dear.

Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand

The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. He has not relinquished her patient hand in getting out, but still holds it as he promised. He gently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up and falls, and she looks into his face and thanks him.

Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.

You are a little low this evening, Frederick,' said the Father of the Marshalsea. 'Anything the matter?

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.