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Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

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.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.