"My father used to say superior people never make long visits."

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"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

"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

Family, Divorce, Protection, Responsibility

"Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Family, Memory, Happiness, Home

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"How did you do that? Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things."My sister is a nice girl, Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Family, Skill, Knowledge, Gender

"I don't know who you think you are - my mother's voice was low and dangerous - "but if you don't get out of my way right this instant, it won't matter.Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to - and he wouldn't stand a chance against my mom."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Family, Authority, Power, Conflict

"Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Family, Mother, Nature, Life, Imagination

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"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

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"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."

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"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."

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"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."

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"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

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"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."

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"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

"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."

"Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family."

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

"How did you do that? Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things."My sister is a nice girl, Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things."

"Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves."

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"Poetry is all nouns and verbs."

"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

"There never was a war that was not inward."

"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."

"We are suffering from too much sarcasm."

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."