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

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Family, Children, Giving, Growingup, Neglect

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Family, Storytelling, Memory, Connection

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Emotion, Attachment, Childhood, Reflection

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Sacrifice, Motherhood, Poverty, Children

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

Family, Life, God, Job

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Family, Children, Talk

"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Care

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Family, Brotherhood, World

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Family, Will

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

Mark Twain, American Author

Family, Father, Approval, Wisdom

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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

Day

"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."

Day

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

People

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

War

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Man

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

Explore more quotes by Will Rogers

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""