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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?

Best things in life aren't things.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

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.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

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.

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