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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

The 'Goonies' are a close knit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside...'Goonies never say die.' That's pretty in line with the mentality of our team.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

The greatest demand is not to demand anything, and the greatest service of love is not to turn it into a business: "You kiss me, I'll bring flowers to you. I brought flowers to you, why didn't you kiss me?"-your American way.

The greatest investment and greatest fair deal and enterprise is family, cozy homes. A cozy home is based on cozy people. Cozy people are not brought and imported, they are made from the time of birth to the time of infinity.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.