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J.S. Bryan
Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.
Robert Frost
Distant relatives er th' best kind, an th' further th' better.
Kin Hubbard
Th' richer a relative is, th' less he bothers you.
Kin Hubbard
Every family should extend First Amendment rights to all its members, but this freedom is particularly essential for our kids. Children must be able to say what they think, openly express their feelings, and ask for what they want and need if they are ever able to develop an integrated sense of self.
Stephanie Marston
In a democratic family, those with superior knowledge and resources (i.e., power) use them to strengthen others in the family. In an authoritarian family, power is used to "tame" and control others.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
Herbert Prochnov
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
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