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Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Every family has bad memories.

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

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

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

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.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Family time is the best time.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

Families, like individuals, are unique.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.