"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

Family, Metaphors, Understanding

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Family, Children, Giving, Growingup, Neglect

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Family, Storytelling, Memory, Connection

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Emotion, Attachment, Childhood, Reflection

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Family, Sacrifice, Motherhood, Poverty, Children

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

Family, Life, God, Job

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Family, Children, Talk

"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Care

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Family, Brotherhood, World

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Family, Will

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

Mark Twain, American Author

Family, Father, Approval, Wisdom

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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

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"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."

Fear

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

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"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."

"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."