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~ The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place. ~

Cameron Crowe

~ Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. ~

Daniel Boone

~ The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. ~

Jim Bunning

~ She had been all over the country and Europe. But her most enjoyable time was visiting her family in Kentucky. ~

William Lambert

~ There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes. ~

HELEN DENDY BOSANQUET

~ Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. ~

Holly Hunter

~ Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teenagers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. ~

Max Lerner

~ The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness ~

Giuseppe Mazzini

~ Family and Friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches. ~

Wanda Hope Carter

~ When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ~

Alex Haley

~ As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ~

Chanakya

~ 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

~ It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. ~

Kamisese Mara

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

Burton Hillis

~ We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. ~

Barbra Streisand

~ Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. ~

Susan Lieberman

~ Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ~

Jessamyn West

~ Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. ~

Warren G. Harding

~ 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

~ American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community. ~

Ben Silliman

~ Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ~

Elizabeth II

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

George Burns

~ Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~

Jane Howard

~ Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. ~

Margaret Mead

Thomas Moore

~ Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~

Evan Esar

~ A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~

Ogden Nash

~ The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~

Erma Bombeck

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