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~ There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained ~

Winston Churchill

~ The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ~

Lee Iacocca

~ To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ~

Pope John Paul II

~ I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one. ~

Mother Teresa

~ Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it. ~

Mae West

~ The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ~

Pope John XXIII

~ What's going on here is a redefinition of Christmas as a time of family celebration rather than as a time of the community faithful celebrating the birth of the savior...There is a risk that we will lose one more of our Christian rituals, one that's at the heart of our faith. ~

Robert Johnston

~ Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires ~

Marcelene Cox

~ A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. ~

Helen Keller

~ I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? ~

Mary Pipher

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

George Bernard Shaw

~ A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere ~

Mel Gibson

~ Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. ~

Joyce Rebeta-Burditt

~ So, I think thatís the centerpiece of morality: Donít lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. You know, itís easy to say, ìIíll never tell a lie.î But if you say, ìIím going to speak the truth,î youíre going to have to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain, old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people. I think thatís another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend on you directly. ~

George McGovern

~ In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony ~

Eva Evelyn Burrows

~ No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses ~

Eli Broad

~ There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit ~

Al Gallagher

~ A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues ~

Joe DiMaggio

~ No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care ~

Hillary Clinton

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

Buddy Hackett

~ The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~

Calvin Trillin

~ Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. ~

David Hume

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

Bertrand Russell

~ We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children ~

John Sculley

~ If the Plan B battle reveals anything, it's that the opponents' real agenda is not to prevent unintended pregnancy and abortion. If that were so, they would be for all forms of contraception. They'd be for better sex education. They'd be for more family-planning counseling. The problem is the right doesn't want greater access to birth control, ... and their opposition to Plan B proves it ~

Steve Gilliard

~ Angelina has made pregnancy and motherhood fashionable. She's expanded the notion of what a family is, and that has a great deal of impact ~

Sally Lee

~ Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ~

Dennis Prager

~ Actors are one family over the entire world. ~

Alfre Woodard

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