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A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Aim high, work hard, and love your family.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.