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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

Every family has bad memories.

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

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

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

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.

Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

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.

family relationships have made me so ill!

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.