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In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

In loving memory from the Family.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

Isn't she lovely made from love?

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is a place where there is a unity in all those who live there, an understanding in all those who relate to it. There is a will to sacrifice for each other; there is a will to live for each other; there is a will to protect each other.