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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 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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do

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.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.