If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

When you mess with someone's love or family, you don't want to be on the other side of the woman's wrath.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

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