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My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
I just wanted to be able to say that I raised my kids and my family around a better environment than I was brought up in.
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.
My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.
A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.