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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Family, Mother, Baby, Being, Desire

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

Explore more quotes by Olive Schreiner

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."

Family, Mother, Man, Southafrican

"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."

Thought, Thoughts, Fools, Southafrican

"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."

Love, God, Blood, Old

"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."

Being, World, Southafrican

"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."

Man, Men, Earth, Moon, Southafrican

"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."

Sleep, Will, Southafrican

"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."

Man, Men, Power, Being, Southafrican

"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."

Work, Heart, Southafrican

"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."

Dream, Dreams, Fathers, Man, Will