Family

(47 votes)   Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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(47 votes)   Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(47 votes)   The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

Gloria Steinem
1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor

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(47 votes)   The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(47 votes)   The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Louise Kapp Howe
1934-, American Author, Editor

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(45 votes)   Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Marmontel Gretry

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(44 votes)   My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

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(44 votes)   Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Anthony Brandt
American Composer, Editor

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(43 votes)   In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

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(43 votes)   Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(43 votes)   The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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