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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
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I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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My father was a person who always allowed me to do what I wanted but he told me you want to go… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
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“The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
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My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd… — Mike D Copy Share Image
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My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
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“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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