Family

(1379 votes)   Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Richard L. Evans

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(751 votes)   May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. Richard L. Evans

Richard L. Evans

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(731 votes)   Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

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(614 votes)   Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(590 votes)   It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(569 votes)   Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

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(548 votes)   friends are family members your not asshamed to bring in public

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(517 votes)   I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters

Lance Armstrong

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(504 votes)   The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(489 votes)   The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(482 votes)   A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(449 votes)   Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(445 votes)   The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(444 votes)   The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Paul Johnson
1928-, British Journalist

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(409 votes)   In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

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