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Inspiration

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

Michelle Carithers

Inspiration

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi.

Virchand Gandhi

"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth."

Ace Frehley

"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."

Unknown

Inspiration

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Lewis Black

"I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!”'That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.”Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history."

Anonymous

Inspiration

...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.

Mordecai Richler

"Yaicha is named after a songby some group from the last century called thePousette-Dart Band.Something about a girl, a candle in the falling rain shining amidst the pain.I kind of surprise myselfwhen I can picture Yaicha as that candle.My father named Yaicha after the 'haunting melody.'I wonder if he ever listenedto the lyrics."

Thalia Chaltas

"Parenting is no sport for perfectionists."

Anonymous

"Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved."

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

"My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic."

Sue Monk Kidd

"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

Unknown

Inspiration

Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog.

Estella M. Chung

Inspiration

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

Adolf Hitler

"On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support."

Michael McCaul

"Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."

Unknown

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by fabian

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Inspiration

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Author

"Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows."

Josh Stern

"It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things could have been for you, for me, and your folks, if literature like this had been around, say, five, ten years ago, when we could’ve all really used it."

Paula Gruben

# Familie