"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another."

Buddha on family
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Franklin, Benjamin on family   

"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy."

Dickens, Charles on family   

"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family."

Crisp, Quentin on family
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."

Colton, Charles Caleb on family   

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on family
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

Brandt, Anthony on family
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."

Aesop on family
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"Don't blame one person for your happiness. Seek out friends & family that will bring you positive thoughts & emotions."

Flanagan, Jerry on relationship
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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

Luce, Clare Boothe on family   

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

Swindoll, Charles on family
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."

Johnson, Paul on family
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"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."

Bach, Richard on family
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