"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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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

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Motherhood, Love, Prayer, Emotion

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Marriage, Life, Perception, Observation

"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Life, Wisdom, Truth

"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Truth, Regret, Emotion, Love

"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Love, Motherhood, Truth, Emotion

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family, Happiness, Unhappiness, Life

"My father never was a famous guy, he was just a person which made a lot of mistakes. But the suicide wasn't the best path, the best choice it was a way which could be skipped by using something else, by doing something else.But the question is why did he do it?To make mad and crazy the daughter of his ladylove??"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Family, Regret, Truth, Sadness, Wisdom

"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family, Instinct, Happiness, Emotion, Life

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Emotion, Reflection, Motherhood, Self-Worth

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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."

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

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"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."

"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."

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"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."

"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."

"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."