"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

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"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."

George Eliot, British Author

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"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

George Barr McCutcheon, American Novelist

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"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

Mike Honda, American Politician

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"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."

Marcel Carne, French Director

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"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

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"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."

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