"Children teach us how to chase without overrunning."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again."
Nadia Hashimi
"My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat."
Alain Ducasse
"Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been."
Norris B. Finlayson
"I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice."
Ty Burrell
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"The most loving, soft, and sweetest word in the world is “Mom."
Anonymous
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."
Bill Cosby
"Reading to small children is a specialty."
Clifton Fadiman
"Whose little boy are you?"
James Baldwin
"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
"It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was."
Anne Sexton
"For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now."
Preeti Shenoy
"People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?"
Jan Ellison
"The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car."
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