Quote by Anna Quindlen
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising chil

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? – Anna Quindlen

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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat. – Anna Quindlen

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Family
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. – Anna Quindlen

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Change
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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. – Anna Quindlen

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Beauty
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Fear
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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. – James K. Polk

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Fear

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness. – Ang Lee

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Fear

Fear follows crime and is its punishment. – Voltaire

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Fear

Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

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Fear

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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. – Mac Thornberry

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environmental

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson

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Hope

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. – C. S. Lewis

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Men

This depression was deep, and you dont climb out of anything as quick as you fall in. – Will Rogers

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Hardship