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"[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family."
"There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins."
"My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers."
"Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back."
"He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another."
"Tennis just a game, family is forever."
"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."
"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."
"My family is more important than my party."
"The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models."
"Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely."
"No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such"
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it."
"The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family."
"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning."
"Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed."
"I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body."
"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."
"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."
