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"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."
"Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict."
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
"Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up."
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."
"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future."
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
"What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?"
"Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them."
"Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives."
"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."
"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music."
