"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

"Children are angels."

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship."

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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."

"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."

"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."