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~ The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~

Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)

~ To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ~

Confucius

~ Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends. ~

Courtland Milloy

~ That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. ~

J. August Strindberg

~ You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. ~

Anita Baker

~ The dearest possession a man has is his family In the divine assurance that family ties may transcend the boundaries of death, and may continue throughout endless ages of eternity, I find supreme consolation and inspiration. ~

David McKay

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

Bertrand Russell

~ You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~

Desmond Tutu

~ The love of a family is life's greatest blessing ~

Unknown

~ In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. ~

Auguste Napier

~ Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~

George Burns

~ A happy family is but an earlier heaven ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow ~

Elias Boudinot

~ In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present ~

Tao Le Ching

~ An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ My family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love ~

Celine Dion

~ If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family ~

Lawrence Housman

~ A family member asked my wife, "Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?" My wife gave this response: "Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school, walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see that you think our son should emulate." ~

Manfred B. Zysk

~ The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ~

George Gilder

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

Alex Haley

~ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thomas Jefferson

~ I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~

Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

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

Alex Haley

~ You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~

Desmond Tutu

~ The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~

George Santayana

~ Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~

Paul Pearshall

~ If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

~ Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~

Gail Lumet Buckley

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