"As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture."
Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
"I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me."
Holly Hood
"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
"Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that."
Brenna Yovanoff
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
Andre Maurois
"Home is where your heart is."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa."
Jason Kilar
"My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take."
Jerry Hall
"To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting."
Amy Chua
"Honestly I don't know why I have these parties'Because of your cat'That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort."
Cassandra Clare
"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
"I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man."
Eric Idle
"I didn't come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and that type of thing, I didn't really have any of that. All I did was follow my dreams. If my fans take anything from me, I hope it would be that."
Keke Palmer
"Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as 'hostages to fortune' and certainly my happiness depended on yours."
Amy Poehler
"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."
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