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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Forget, Mother, Age, Love

"Children see beauty in everything."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Beauty, See, Everything

"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Family, Model, Manhood, Husband, Father

"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Refuse, Help, Relatives, Support

"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Family, Work, Mother, Life, Effort

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Motherhood, Love, Prayer, Emotion

"Children are great observers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Observers, World, Innocence

"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Family, Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Family, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Power

"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

Barbara Castle, British Politician

Family, Dad, Brother

Explore more quotes by Vernon Jordan

"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."

Authority, Chicago, Job

"But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place."

Time, Will

"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you."

People, Care, Will, World

"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."

Work, Goals, Company, Objectives

"My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended."

Family, Mother, President, School

"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."

Leadership, Sense

"September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy."

Tragedy,

"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."

Goal, Goals, Performance, Diversity, Sales

"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."

Politics, Word