Family quotes
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"My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack."
"[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children."
"Why did I adopt kids? I dunno. Let me look at my family: religious weirdo, gun nut, biker, boozer, dead tooth, too many cats, the guy who talks to his truck. Hmm. Maybe I adopted because genetically my balls are full of poison."
"In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies."
"When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for."
"Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom."
"One ought to be just before one is generous"
"My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle."
"Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that."
"Family life is an encroachment on private life."
"... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."
"His brothers were the type; he was the variation."
"Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues."
"You won't see my parents honored on any stamps."
"I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family."
"Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things."
"Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition"
"If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless"
"Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least."
"I'd like to do more family dramas."
