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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

I got born in the wrong family.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I have a very strong family.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.