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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.... [P]ublic employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one’s family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

If... a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism.

Clement of Alexandria

I have often noticed that
ancestors never boast
of the descendants who boast
of ancestors I would
rather start a family than
finish one blood will tell but often
it tells too much

Don Marquis

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

All kids think some other family is perfect.

Sheri S. Tepper Grass (1989)

Perforce, the family that preys together stays together.

Charles Stross Rule 34 (2011)

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

Charles A. Reich The Greening of America (1970)

I'm very proud of my son and anyone who has someone on the spectrum in their family feels the exact same way.

Andrew Yang

Nauru considers its relationship with Taiwan as that of family and we stand with Taiwan.

Lionel Aingimea Lionel Aingimea (2019)

I like any man, I need tenderness and family warmth.

Majid Al Mohandis

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family.

Liu Jieyi Liu Jieyi (2019)

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons Robert Freed Bales (1956)

Family and faith are the invisible double helix of society—two spirals that when linked to one another can effectively reproduce, but whose strength and momentum depend on one another.

Mary Eberstadt

In a family, children leave and go and set up their own households and that does not in any way affect the relationship between the family.

Mia Mottley Mia Mottley (2020)

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

He belonged to a respectable family and I wanted him to continue to belong there.

Gangubai Hangal

I love him dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.

John McCain

Jim [Coleman, his defense attorney] and Fred [Lawrence, his minister], I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.

Ted Bundy

The family was based, not upon actual relationship, but upon power, and the husband acquired over his wife the same despotic power which the father had over his children.

Henry James Sumner Maine The early history of the property of married women (1873)

The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

Graça Machel Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

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