"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

Family, Children, English, Language

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"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Gratitude, Life, Identity

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Family, Respect, Building, Values

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Family, Humor, Memory, Generations

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Family, Emotion, Sadness, Life

"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Life, Baby, Value

"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Family, Teaching, Respect, Dignity

"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Family, Home, Support, Love

"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."

David Cameron, British Politician

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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

Government, Character, Future, Promise

"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."

Man, Now, Reason, Will

"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."

Peace,

"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."

Money, People, Schools, Years

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."

People, Character, Day

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

Responsibility, School, Teaching

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."

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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."

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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

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"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

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