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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.