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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Every family has bad memories.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Families ought to be noisy.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.

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.