“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?”
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Carl Sandburg
2 quotes“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
H. L. Mencken
1 quote“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.”
Patricia Briggs
1 quote“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
Albert Camus
1 quote“… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1 quote“The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.”
Pope John XXIII
1 quote“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Amy Tan
1 quote“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
Jim Butcher
1 quote“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”
Sigmund Freud
1 quote“A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Anaïs Nin
1 quote“[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”
Pope John Paul II
1 quote“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
Sir Francis Bacon
1 quote“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either o...”