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The family is
the nucleus of civilization.
-- William J. Durant
1885-1981, American
Historian, Essayist
He that raises
a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them,
stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a
broader mark for pleasure too.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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
The greatest
thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is
intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't
intended.
-- Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet
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What a man
sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
-- Clarissa Graves
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
Where can a
person be better than in the bosom of their family.
-- Marmontel Gretry
Families are
about love overcoming emotional torture.
-- Matt Groening
1954-, American Writer,
Cartoonist, Animator, Producer, Screenwriter
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