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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
-- Pearl S. Buck |
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
-- Fred Allen |
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
-- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore |
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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
-- Gail Lumet Buckley |
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Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
--Anthony Brandt |
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
-- Marge Kennedy |
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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
-- George Eliot |
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.
-- Rose Macaulay |
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Friends are God's apology for relations.
-- Hugh Kingsmill |
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
-- Lee Iacocca |
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