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Alfred M. Gray

"I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general."

Alfred M. Gray, American Soldier
Family, Mother, Father, Democracy, Troops
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"I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"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
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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

Virginia Woolf, British Author
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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
Family, Life, Wisdom, Truth
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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
Family, Truth, Regret, Emotion, Love
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"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
Family, Love, Motherhood, Truth, Emotion
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"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist
Family, Happiness, Unhappiness, Life
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"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist
Family, Instinct, Happiness, Emotion, Life
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"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

Virginia Woolf, British Author
Family, Emotion, Reflection, Motherhood, Self-Worth
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"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations."

Carol Shields, Canadian Author
Family, Mother, Feelings, Writer

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