"I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama."

Family, Childhood, Drama

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"I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama."

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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

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"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

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

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Family, Children, Talk

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

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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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."

Mike Honda, American Politician

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."

Timidity

"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."

People

"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."

Life

"I will never retire."

Will

"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

Time

"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."

Progress

"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."

Now

"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."

Pacifism

"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

Fiction

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

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