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Our government should not be run like a business; it should be run like a family. A business might rightfully put its short-term profits first, but a functional family puts the well-being of its children first.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952Marianne Williamson: If We Want a Prosperous America Tomorrow, Take Care of Our Children Today, Newsweek (23 July 2020)
- Government
I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before⁠—
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, XXIV. 505–506 (tr. Robert Fagles); Priam to Achilles
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
- God
Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging⁠—to a family, to a people, and to the land.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 37
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
- Religion
- Women
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Abraham1813–1638 BCGenesis 13:8 (King James Version)
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.
John Irvingborn 1942The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle Obamaborn 19642016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
- Children
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2: My Folks, p. 13
- Motivation & Goals
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in “Just A Couple Of Legends” CBS News.com (20 May 1998)
- Friendship
- Life & Death
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of love for our posterity.
John Quincy Adams1767–1848Oration at Plymouth (1802)
- History
She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life (1930), Ch. 1, on his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill
- Love
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878), Pt. I, ch. 1
- Happiness
I mean, they don’t grade fathers. But if your daughter’s a stripper, you fucked up.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
- Comedy
There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
- Music