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Family Quotes
"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."
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"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers."
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"One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth."
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"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
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"The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past."
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"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."
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"Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
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"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood."
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"The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?"
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"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
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"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."
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"In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform."
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"I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there."
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"It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart."
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"There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty."
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"It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents."
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"The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".''Do I?"
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"It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean."
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"I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."
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"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
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"An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course, always charting new course for her loved ones."
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"The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family."
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"I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver's license is involved, you can go a whole day-a whole week, even-without ever seeing your family. You can maybe say good morning and maybe say good night, but everything in the middle can be left blank."
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"Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood."
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"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president."
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