"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

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"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

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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

"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

Family, Children

"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house."

Bruce Barton, American Author

Family, Home, Life, Man

"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

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"I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich."

Time

"Our act started at the bottom and went downhill."

Act

"Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will."

Will

"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."

Living

"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."

Marriage

"It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!"

Friendship

"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."

Winning

"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."

Difference

"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."

Beginning

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."

Committee