Quotations About / On: FAMILY
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Quotations About / On: FAMILY
Leo Tolstoy
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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Stella Benson
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
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SY Wong ...
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A family man will think of what 's good for the family.
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Joseph Featherstone
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The ideal of the self-sufficient American family is a myth, dangerous because most families, especially affluent families, do in fact make use of a range of services to survive. Families needing one or another kind of help are not morally deficient; most families do need assistance at one time or another.
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Abraham Lincoln
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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Elizabeth II
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
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Erik H Erikson
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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
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David Elkind
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We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
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Susan Sontag
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
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Walterrean Salley
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Family is the strength of society, and as it remains strong, so does society; but the unraveling of the family structure weakens the pillars of society.
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George Santayana
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let "born again" patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.
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Virginia Satir
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
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T. Berry Brazelton
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Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
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Friedrich Von Schlegel
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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Jane Austen
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There are secrets in all families.
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