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We talked about our real mothers and how we wanted to know who they'd been. Perhaps we ought not to have shared so much, but it was very comforting. "I wish I had a sister," she said to me one day. "And if I did, that person would be you.
— Margaret Atwood
They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.
— Margaret Atwood
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.
— Margaret Atwood
Be a good girl, she said. I hope you'll be a good sister to Laura. I know you try to be. I nodded. I didn't know what to say. I felt I was the victim of an injustice: why was it always me who was supposed to be a good sister to Laura, instead of the other way around? Surely my mother loved Laura more than she loved me.
— Margaret Atwood
Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.
— Margaret Atwood
Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
— Margaret Atwood
Blood is thinner than money.
— Margaret Atwood
Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.
— Zig Ziglar
Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
— Rick Warren
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
— George W. Bush
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
— Mark Twain
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
— Amy Grant