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All I am, or
can be, I owe to my angel mother.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
So much of
what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that
it remains the measure of our stability because it measures
our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive
from it and are modeled upon it.
-- Haniel Long
1888-1956, American Author,
Poet, Journalist
Women know
what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and
spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
-- Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat,
Writer
As to the
family, I have never understood how that fits in with the
other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it
is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure,
sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as
admirable, an almost religious ideal?
-- Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist,
Essayist
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I would rather
start a family than finish one.
-- Don Marquis
1878-1937, American Humorist,
Journalist
The Family is
the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family
who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and
of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome,
sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness
which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to
this angel, the joys of the Family.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
1805-1872, Italian Patriot,
Writer
Sisters are
always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they
pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that
their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the
telephone.
-- Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet,
Author
Nobody has
ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself
in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've
put it in an impossible situation.
-- Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American
Anthropologist
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