"I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds."
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"To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children."
"The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them."
"The parents are pissed, but the kids love it."
"Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel."
"It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name."
"And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected."
"Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us."
"When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you."
"Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of."
"That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother."
"To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?"
"Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun."
"Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down."
"Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us."
"Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family."
"... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger."
"As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine."
"Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together."
"I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous."