"I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family."

Family, People, Country, Rest

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"I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family."

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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

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"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"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

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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

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"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

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"Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits."

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"Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?"

Baby

"I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods."

Day

"It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old."

Old

"Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip."

People

"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."

Present

"I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away."

Day

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"

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"My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family."

Family

"Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling."

People