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

 

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

 

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If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

 

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

 

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Marilyn French:
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.



Mary Randolph:

 

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Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter. (preface, The Virginia House-Wife, 1824)

 

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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

 

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I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

 

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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender -- these form the wealth of home.

 

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

 

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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

 

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It’s not cheating unless you get caught.

 

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Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

 

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

 

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Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I’ve done it dozens of times.

 

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I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

 

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The happiest moments of

 

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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.

 

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family

 

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.