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

Family, Father

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

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Family, Fear, Joy, Motherhood, Love

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Care, Nurturing

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Family, Quarrels, Rules, Skin

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Family, Aging, Responsibility, Hope

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Family, Dance, May

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

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"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

Spiritual, Soul, Existence, Joy, Fear

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

Independence, Followers

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

Learning, Knowledge, Books, Truth

"Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age."

Wisdom, Thought, Aging, Clarity

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."

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