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| American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended FAMILY. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's FAMILY and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer |
| Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your FAMILY, your co-workers or your clients and customers. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| Once you agree upon the price you and your FAMILY must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. | Vince Lombardi | 1913-1970, American Football Coach |
| All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Roots is not just a saga of my FAMILY. It is the symbolic saga of a people. | Alex Haley | 1921-1992, American Writer |
| Actors are one FAMILY over the entire world. | Alfre Woodard | 1953-, American Actress |
| Our notion of the perfect society embraces the FAMILY as its centre and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your FAMILY. | Anita Baker | American Singer, Entertainer |
| Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. | Ann Oakley | 1944-, British Sociologist, Author |
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| Other things may change us, but we start and end with FAMILY. | Anthony Brandt | American Composer, Editor |
| None but a mule denies his FAMILY. | Arabian Proverb | Sayings of Arabian Origin |
| Cruel is the strife of brothers. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and FAMILY. | Barbara Bush | 1925-, American First Lady, Wife of President George Bush |
| Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your FAMILY, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. | Barbara Bush | 1925-, American First Lady, Wife of President George Bush |
| He that raises a large FAMILY does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, FAMILY relations, or life itself. | Bernard Meltzer | 1914-, American Law Professor |
| A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| A FAMILY is a place where minds come in contact with one another. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| As a child my FAMILY's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. | Buddy Hackett | |
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| The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the FAMILY into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| The lover of life makes the whole world into his FAMILY, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| The FAMILY is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the FAMILY establishes society's most basic values. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. | Charles M. Schultz | 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts'' |
| A FAMILY is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. | Charles Swindoll | American Pastor, Author |
| In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Govern a FAMILY as you would cook a small fish -- very gently. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Man is the head of the FAMILY, woman the neck that turns the head. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
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| For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the FAMILY. | Clare Boothe Luce | 1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer |
| What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. | Clarissa Graves | |
| It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own FAMILY. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy FAMILY is unhappy in its own way. | Count Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher |
| Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having FAMILY and friends. | Courtland Milloy | |
| Classical and romantic: private language of a FAMILY quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. | Cyril Connolly | 1903-1974, British Critic |
| I would rather start a FAMILY than finish one. | Don Marquis | 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist |
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| When I do something in my FAMILY because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me. | Dr. Jess Lair | American Professor, Counselor |
| If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a FAMILY man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. | Dustin Hoffman | 1937-, American Actor |
| I have found out in later years that my FAMILY was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood] | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his FAMILY ought to know. | Dwight L. Moody | 1837-1899, American Evangelist |
| We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the FAMILY, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on Technicolour prairies and rivers. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the FAMILY takes the place of instincts that program the behaviour of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? | Elizabeth Janeway | 1913-, American Author, Critic |
| A small FAMILY is soon provided for. | English Proverb | Sayings of British Origin |
| You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American FAMILY. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. | Erma Bombeck | 1927-, American Author, Humorist |
| The FAMILY is the school of duties... founded on love. | Felix Adler | 1851-1933, American Educator, Social Critic |
| He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
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