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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#family #family

Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting ↗

— Mark Gorman

#family #god #inspirational #love #marriage

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#country #noble #noble cause #our #sent

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#difficult #family

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. ↗

— Amy Tan

#concepts #daughters #family #fear #heritage

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#any #around #asians #certainly #children

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability. ↗

— Seth Godin

#family

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#meghan-chase #sage #family

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where. ↗

— James Clavell

#inner-self #japan #psychology #family

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of. ↗

— John Breaux

#come #daschle #going #i #i am