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| A. S. Neill | Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, t [read rest of quote] |
| A. S. Neill | The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he i [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. |
| Alexander Pope | A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. |
| Australian Aboriginal Elder | You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents. |
| Barbara Bush | To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for [read rest of quote] |
| Bertrand Russell | The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays [read rest of quote] |
| Calvin Trillin | The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member o [read rest of quote] |
| Charles De Talleyrand | A married man with a family will do anything for money. |
| Clarence Darrow | The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. |
| Denzel Washington | Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life. |
| Desmond Tutu | You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. |
| Dodie Smith | The family-that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, e [read rest of quote] |
| Douglas Adams | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar [read rest of quote] |
| Erma Bombeck | I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. |
| Erma Bombeck | The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. |
| H. L. Mencken | A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. |
| Henry Ford | My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my g [read rest of quote] |
| Isaac Rosenfeld | In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, b [read rest of quote] |
| Joseph Fischer | Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either. |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the [read rest of quote] |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentme [read rest of quote] |
| Malcolm De Chazal | The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. |
| Marcelene Cox | A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees th [read rest of quote] |
| Margaret Mead | The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain [read rest of quote] |
| Martin Mull | Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. |
| Nancy Astor | I married beneath me - all women do. |
| Norman Podhoretz | Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its a [read rest of quote] |
| O. A. Battista | The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. |
| Ogden Nash | Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. |
| Ogden Nash | A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the co [read rest of quote] |
| Peter De Vries | There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. |
| Quentin Crisp | The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so [read rest of quote] |
| Richard Bach | The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others lif [read rest of quote] |
| Ruby Manikan | If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. |
| Shirley Abbott | We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as [read rest of quote] |
| Socrates | Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te [read rest of quote] |
| Thomas Jefferson | The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my f [read rest of quote] |
| Thomas Jefferson | Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relatives open arms. The ha [read rest of quote] |
| Unknown | Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. |