"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."

Family, Love, Relationship, Connection

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"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."

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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

"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

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

Family, Gossip

"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Family, Fear, Joy, Motherhood, Love

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Care, Nurturing

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Family, Quarrels, Rules, Skin

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Family, Aging, Responsibility, Hope

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Family, Dance, May

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

Courage

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Wisdom

"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."

Life

"Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others."

Character

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Philosophy

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."

Politics

"You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

Youth

"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Motivation

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."

Mindset

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

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