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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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Personal Development
"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
Family
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
Books
"Children want to do what grownups do."
Family
"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
People
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
Family
"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
Books
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
Books
"I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all."
Writing
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