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There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is s...

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in...

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Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down

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Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems 1927-1979

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of ...

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It is not good not to have health insurance that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what a...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carp...

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Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a famil...

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All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...

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...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cous...

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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone is...

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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or atten...

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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possessi...

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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe ...

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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...

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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...

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I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their righ...

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Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so....

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if ...

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I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strik...

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Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog...

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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plat...

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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their...

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When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "over...

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Erma BombeckWhen God Created Mothers

Blood is thicker than water,"The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a ...

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That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that t...

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Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the p...

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In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...

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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if...

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Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and w...

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Eugene O'NeillLong Day's Journey Into Night

One of the problems of the vacation is money, father.”“Oh, I shouldn’t worry about a thing like that...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family arou...

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No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move i...

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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner r...

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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campo...

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Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family mem...

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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convin...

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Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toe...

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Florence KingReflections in a Jaundiced Eye

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has br...

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My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there...

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Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight...

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For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that...

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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...

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Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the gro...

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like an...

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The word Familia did not originally signify the ideal of our modern philistine, which is a compound ...

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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are ...

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There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

He always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to him...

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of cert...

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Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, m...

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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and com...

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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to trave...

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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's alm...

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So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible ...

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

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

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

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

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service fo...

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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, ...

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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...

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I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. ...

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influ...

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My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianis...

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The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred...

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work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everyt...

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God is the designer of the family.

I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the...

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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv...

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Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my...

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The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)I sh...

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A rubber plant is just about the ideal family.

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regulari...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

So what do we do?""We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.