"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

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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

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

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"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."

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

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"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

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"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

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"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Children are great observers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!"

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"Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

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

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

"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."

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

"Children are great observers."

"My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!"

"Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad."

Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me."

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

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