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Michael Levine: “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”

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Christopher Lasch: “It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”

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Hafiz of Persia: “We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.”

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Oprah Winfrey: “For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school. ”

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Theodore Roosevelt: “No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.”

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Alice Miller: “Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ”

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John Kerry: “And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.”

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Jennifer James: “The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.”

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: “The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it. ”

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Barack Obama: “My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.”

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Mary Randolph: “Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.”

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Christopher Lasch: “The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”

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Marilyn French: “To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

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Emma Thompson: “Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.”

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: “When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being 'better,' and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”

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Sidonie Gruenberg: “Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.”

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Evelyn Waugh: “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.”

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Carl Sandburg: “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

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William Shakespeare: “The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

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Margaret Mead: “No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”

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Isaac Rosenfeld: “In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

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Leo Tolstoy: “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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John Donne: “As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.”

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H. L. Barnum: “There was a time when ladies knew nothing, beyond their own family concerns; but in the present day there are many who know nothing about them. Each of these extremes should be avoided. (1831)”

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Ben Silliman: “American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.” more

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John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight: “Every single person has capabilities, abilities and gifts. Living a good life depends on whether those capabilities can be used, abilities expressed and gifts given. If they are, the person will be valued, feel powerful and well-connected to the people around them. And the community around the person will be more powerful because of the contribution the person is making.”

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Auguste Napier: “In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.”

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Marian Wright Edelman: “If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”

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Colette: “It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

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