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Family Quotes

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - opening line from Anna Karenina

- Leo Tolstoy

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

- Margaret Mead

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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

- Thomas Jefferson

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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

- Alex Haley

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

- Francis Bacon

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

- Bertrand Russell

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

- Francis Bacon

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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

- Thomas Moore

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

- George Santayana

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

- Virginia Satir

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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

- Marilyn French

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