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"Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home."

Hale, Sarah J. on family    Share


"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."

Haley, Alex on family    Share

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Howard, Jane on family
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"The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way."

Howe, Louise Kapp on family    Share

"My family begins with me, your family ends with you."

Iphicrates on family    Share

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?"

Janeway, Elizabeth on family    Share

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

Jefferson, Thomas on family
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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

John Paul II 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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"Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children."

Johnson, Samuel on family    Share

"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness."

Keats, John on family    Share

"The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family."

King, Florence on family    Share

"When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me."

Lair, Dr. Jess on family    Share

"A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock."

Lamb, Charles on family    Share

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

Lardner, Ring on family
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"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother."

Lincoln, Abraham on family
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"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."

Long, Haniel on family
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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    Share

"I would rather start a family than finish one."

Marquis, Don on family    Share

"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

Mcginley, Phyllis on family
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"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

Mead, Margaret on family    Share

"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."

Mencken, H. L. on family    Share

"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on family    Share

"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on family    Share

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know."

Moody, Dwight L. on family    Share

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

Mull, Martin on family    Share

"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on family    Share

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Oakley, Ann on family    Share

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."

O'connor, Sandra Day on family    Share

"A brother is a friend provided by nature."

Pere, Legouve on family    Share

"The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous."

Picabia, Francis on family    Share

"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."

Pritchett, V. S. on family    Share

"None but a mule denies his family."

Proverb, Arabian on family    Share

"All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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