As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

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