Large Family Quotes

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

  Paul McGann

  Allies, Feels, Protected

  "This Much I Know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2011.

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  Anthony Brandt

  Change, Family, Grandparent

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• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

  Nancy Mitford

  Family, Life Lesson, Being Thankful

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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• He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Family, Sorrow

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.182

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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

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Family, Home, Government

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• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  Lance Bass

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• I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

  Trey Parker

  Family, Brother, Sibling

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• There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Family, Being Thankful, Laziness

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• In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Parent, Today

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• 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.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Population, Opinion

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.

  Karen Brown

  Mom, Children, Kids

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• All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

  J. California Cooper

  Family, Sister, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012

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• A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

  Martha Reeves

  Parent, Accepting

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• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  Carroll Quigley

  Intimate Relationships, Community, Groups

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• My family is very large. 42 million.

  Nelson Mandela

  My Family, Millions

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• The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

  Margaret Sanger

  Family, Money, Feminist

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• In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Animal, Men, Perfect

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• A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

  Anne Northup

  Teenager, People, Common

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

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• Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

  William Saroyan

  Children, Kids, World

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book b yWilliam Saroyan, 1961.

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