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Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

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.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

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.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

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

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

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

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Every family has bad memories.

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

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.