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Family

«I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured»
«I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.»
Author: Hal Boyle | About: Family | Keywords: grandpa, old fashioned
«I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.»
«I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.»
Author: Barbara Bush | About: Family | Keywords: family life, ingredient, togetherness
«I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | About: Family | Keywords: begot
«I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.»
«I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.»
«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.»
«I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.»
Author: Drew Barrymore (Actress) | About: Family | Keywords: early on
«I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes»