Quotes: family
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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Mario Puzo
American author, screenwriter and journalist
1920-1999
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Source: The Godfather
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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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.
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
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'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
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A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117
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Buddha
Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
ca. 450 BC - ca. 370 BC
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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