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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

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Emotion, Attachment, Childhood, Reflection

"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

Family, Life, God, Job

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Family, Will

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

Mark Twain, American Author

Family, Father, Approval, Wisdom

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

John Irving, American Novelist

Family, Sense

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Family, Childhood, Helpfulness, Learning

"Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Family, Father, Daughter, Love, Language

"As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Family, Motherhood, Compassion, God, Love

Explore more quotes by Robert Klein

"But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working."

Acting, Being, Career

"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."

Dream, Dreams, Dogs, Woman

"But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there."

Father, Difference, Drama, Ivy

"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."

Quality, Research

"Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame."

Fame,

"And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy."

Comedy, Drama, School

"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."

Movies, Television, Writing, Years

"I was a class clown."

Class,

"My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family."

Family, Son, Class