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Eda LeShan:
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.

 

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

 

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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.



Erma Bombeck:

 

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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

 

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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

 

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

 

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

 

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.



Helen Keller:

 

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



Isaac Rosenfeld:

 

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In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there

 

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Every single person has capabilities, abilities and gifts. Living a good life depends on whether those capabilities can be used, abilities expressed and gifts given. If they are, the person will be valued, feel powerful and well-connected to the people around them. And the community around the person will be more powerful because of the contribution the person is making.

 

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - opening line from Anna Karenina

 

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.