"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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"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Childhood, Space

"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Family, Gratitude, Poverty, Faith

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Family, Parenting, Children, Knowledge, Wisdom

"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, New Life, Creation

"I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Family, Humor, Truth, Life, Power

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Family, Father, Education, Gift, Love

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

John Irving, American Novelist

Family, Divorce, Protection, Responsibility

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Family, Lie, Children, Language

"It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security."

Heston Blumenthal, English Celebrity

Family, Home, Wife, Security

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

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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

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"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

Success

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

Art

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."

Prohibition

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"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

"I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day."

"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

"It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security."

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

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

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

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

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

"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."