"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

Family, Father, Lie, Thoughts, Hurt

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

Family, Brother, Smoking

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

Family, Mother, Father, Heart, Country

"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Forget, Mother, Age, Love

"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

Family, First

"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

Family, First, Loyalty

"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."

George Eliot, British Author

Family, Fatherhood, Love, Affection

"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

George Barr McCutcheon, American Novelist

Family, Father, Chicago, Office, Pretty

"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

Mike Honda, American Politician

Family, War, Americans, Nation

"Children see beauty in everything."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Beauty, See, Everything

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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

"Children see beauty in everything."

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"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."

"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."

"For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts."

"Speech is civilization itself."