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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

The family is the country of the heart.

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

The fact is, if a person has not experienced the love of his or her soul, within one's self, there is no chance that that person can go out and love, even though it is a faculty of love that you most powerfully need.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

The family is the American fascism.

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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.