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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

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.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

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.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.