"I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me."

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"I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me."

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."

Ilona Andrews, American Writer

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing."

Andrea Corr, Irish Musician

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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

Leisure

"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."

Improvement

"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."

Emotional

"Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time."

Time

"There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes."

Nation

"If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?"

Change

"You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives."

People

"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better."

People

"To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport."

Success

"The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates."

People