"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Family, Children, Giving, Growingup, Neglect

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Emotion, Attachment, Childhood, Reflection

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Sacrifice, Motherhood, Poverty, Children

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

Family, Life, God, Job

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Family, Will

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

Mark Twain, American Author

Family, Father, Approval, Wisdom

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

John Irving, American Novelist

Family, Sense

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Family, Childhood, Helpfulness, Learning

"Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Family, Father, Daughter, Love, Language

"As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Family, Motherhood, Compassion, God, Love

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

Growth

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."

Strength

"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

Strength

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Emotion

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Strength

"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

Fate

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

"Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand."

"As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation."

Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

"Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy."