Family

(203 votes)   The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James G. Frazer
1854-1941, Scottish Classicist, Anthropologist

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(201 votes)   we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond

Gwedolyn Brooks

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(198 votes)   The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard David Bach

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(194 votes)   None but a mule denies his family.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(192 votes)   You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Erma Bombeck
1927-, American Author, Humorist

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(192 votes)   Your self-care is not negotiable, but necessary to be the best you and the best parent.

Mia Redrick
Author, Time for mom-Me:5 Essential Strategies for A Mother's Self-Care

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(190 votes)   A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

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(187 votes)   To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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(183 votes)   Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

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(178 votes)   The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus
55-117 AD, Roman Historian

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(177 votes)   The principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder is not restricted to computer games. Once we become fully conscious of this principle, we can find ways to become more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations with our family and friends more interactive than they once were. The more thoughtful our questions get to be, the more interactive the conversations

Steve Chandler

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(176 votes)   The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(175 votes)   The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Sandra Day O'connor
1930-, First American Woman Supreme Court Judge

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(175 votes)   The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(174 votes)   Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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