"Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home."

Family, Home, Moments, Trying

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"Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home."

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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!"

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

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

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"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

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"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."

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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

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"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it."

People

"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."

People

"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."

History

"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."

Travel

"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."

Friendship

"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."

Politics

"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."

People

"Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now."

People

"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."

People

"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."

Time