"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."
Natalia Ginzburg
"A woman keeps her kitchen like her heart: Well stocked and labelled and shelved, with lots of air and light, spick and span and filled with love."
Prabhukrishna M
"Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket."
Dana Pollan
"To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again."
Nadia Hashimi
"My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music."
Siddhartha Mukherjee
"If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it."
Jodi Picoult
"Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."
Anonymous
"My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home."
Patty Loveless
"These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance."
Edwidge Danticat
"I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'."
Bernie Mac
"I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside."
Tommy Hilfiger
"Daddy,' I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. 'I love you.'Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. 'I knew that,' he murmured. 'Always knew that."
Morgan Matson
"For me, reading begins at home."
Soraya Diase Coffelt
"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents."
Gloria Swanson
"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."
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