"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Family, Blood, Will

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"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

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"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

"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

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Family, Mother, Water, Wrong

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Family, Motherhood, Life, Programming, Knowledge

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Family, Health, Struggle, Truth

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Family, Respect, Positivity, Speech

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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

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"I would rather start a family than finish one."

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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

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"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

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

"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."

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

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

"I would rather start a family than finish one."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."