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"An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese."
"Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month."
"I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade."
"You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness."
"Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes."
"Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation."
"Everything is ideal to its parent."
"Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college."
"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."
"I wasn't even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn't give a toss. These things - the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it's all trash."
"Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people."
"You get a little stir crazy during the week."
"Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?"
"There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation."
"My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken."
"This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself."
"People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom."
"Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were."
"The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common."
"I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey."
