"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

Family, Relatives, Support

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"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

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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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Gratitude, Life, Identity

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

Family, Gossip

"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

Family, Fear, Joy, Motherhood, Love

"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."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"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

Family, Mother, Love, Care, Nurturing

"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

Family, Quarrels, Rules, Skin

"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

Family, Aging, Responsibility, Hope

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Family, Dance, May

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

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"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."

Age

"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

Children

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

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"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."

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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!"

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

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

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

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

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

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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."

"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."