"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, New Life, Creation

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

John Irving, American Novelist

Family, Divorce, Protection, Responsibility

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Family, Fatherhood, Love, Life

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

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Family, Protection, Wisdom, Safety

"Fear is the mother of morality."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Family, Mother, Morality, Fear

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Gratitude, Life, Joy

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Care, Health, Love

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Family, Mother, Lose, Soul, Blessing

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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."

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"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."

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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

Happiness

"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

Writing

"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."

Health

"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

Time

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

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

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

Explore more quotes by Tracy Kidder

"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."

"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."

"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."

"I always want to write something better than the last book."

"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."