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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)
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
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
Alan Aldaborn 1936Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I’ve Learned (2005)
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XVIIIIn context
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 235
- Children
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842), Part I, ch. XLV
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter IIn context
There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter IVIn context
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 1:28 (KJV)In context
- Children
Am I my brother’s keeper?
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 4:9 (KJV)In context
- Responsibility
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:24 (KJV)In context
- Marriage
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
William Blake1757–1827The Chimney Sweeper (1789)In context
- Children
On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.
Helena Bonham Carterborn 1966Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006
- Children
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown1933–2006Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.