"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Mother, Listening, Wisdom, Perspective

"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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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

Alice Walker, American Author

Family, Children, Will

"Children are God's gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Gift, God, Blessing

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Family, Marriage, Peace, Friendship

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Family, Humor, Memory, Generations

"Doubt is the brother of shame."

Erik Erikson, American Psychologist

Family, Brother, Doubt, Shame

"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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"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

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"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."

Life

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

Nature

"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"

Love

"It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"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!"

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

"Children are God's gift."

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

"Doubt is the brother of shame."

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

Explore more quotes by Rudyard Kipling

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare."