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"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
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"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."
"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."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"Things that remind me of Mother are these:the truth 'mid deception, a warm summer breeze,the calm within chaos, a stitch in a rip,a comforting blanket, the smile on her lip,an ocean of love in a heart big as whales,the morals in everyday stories she tells,a wink amid laughter, the wisdom in books,the peace in humility, beauty in looks,the light and the life in a ray of the sun,the hard work accomplished disguised as pure fun,concern in a handclasp, encouragement too,the hope in a clear morning sky azure blue,the power in prayers uttered soft and sincere,the faith in a promise, and joy in a tear.These things all attest to the wonder and graceof my precious mother, none else could replace."
"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
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"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."
"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."
"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation."
"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."
"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."
"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."
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