"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

Family, Influence, Society, Irony

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"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family,

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Family, Protection, Wisdom, Safety

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Care, Health, Love

"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Motherhood, Metaphor, Children, Weight

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Mother, Listening, Wisdom, Perspective

"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

"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Beatitudes, Nature, Spirituality

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

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Family, Respect, Building, Values

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

Alice Walker, American Author

Family, Children, Will

"Mom means miracles of a magical life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mom, Miracles, Magical, Life

Explore more quotes by Don DeLillo

"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."

Literature

"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."

Society

"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."

Mortality

"Hardship makes the world obscure."

Hardship

"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."

Literature

"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."

Communication

"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."

Observation

"I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues."

Art

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

Movies

"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."

Observation