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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Written by Charles Dudley Warner
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Written by Willa Cather
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Written by Barry Goldwater
I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Written by Dan Quayle
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
Written by David Ogilvy
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Written by Robert M. Hutchins
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Written by Buddy Hackett
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Written by Saul Alinsky
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
Written by Cleveland Amory
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
Written by William J. Brennan, Jr.
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
Written by Robert Byrd
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
Written by Ilka Chase
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
Written by John Cheever
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Written by Margaret Drabble
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Written by Queen Elizabeth II
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Written by Desmond Tutu
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Written by Antonin Scalia
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Written by Hugh Sidey
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Written by Vartan Gregorian
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Written by Igor Stravinsky
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
Written by Lewis Thomas
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
Written by John Irving
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Written by Pope John Paul II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Written by Pope John Paul II
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Written by Pope John XXIII
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.
Written by Joseph P. Kennedy

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