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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

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.

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

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

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

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

In loving memory from the Family.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.