"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."

Family, Children, Holidays, Memory, Talking

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"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."

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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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Family, Fatherhood, Love, Life

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

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family,

"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

Family, Protection, Wisdom, Safety

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Gratitude, Life, Joy

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

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Care, Health, Love

"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

Family, Humor, Aging, Perspective

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Motherhood, Metaphor, Children, Weight

"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

Family, Care, World

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"And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out."

Fun

"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."

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"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."

Fun

"The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up."

Money

"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."

Work

"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."

Humor

"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."

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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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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"And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out."

"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."

"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."

"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."

"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."

"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."

"The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up."

"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."

"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."

"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."