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“Life is like a box of chocolates.”
― Winston Groom, Gump & Co.

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
― Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Fairy Tales

“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”
― Alice Walker

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
― Henri Matisse

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.”
― Walt Disney

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”
― Barbara Johnson

“If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“Books, the children of the brain.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches

“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his--"
Yes, he sounds like a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter.
Never married, for some reason," said Ron.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
― Audrey Hepburn