"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

Family, Children, Luck, World

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"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

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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

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Family, Brotherhood, World

"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

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

Alice Walker, American Author

Family, Mothers, Names

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

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Family, Childhood, Helpfulness, Learning

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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

Companionship

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

Knowledge

"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

Legacy

"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

Equality

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

Literature

"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."

Fate

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

Grief

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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.""

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

"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."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

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

Explore more quotes by E. M. Forster

"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

"We move between two darknesses."

"Only connect!"

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."