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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Robert Morgan

Soldier · American · 1918 – 2004

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Tom Allen

Politician · American · b. 1945

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Sidney Altman

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1939

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Mencius

Philosopher · Chinese

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

David Guterson

Author · American · b. 1956

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Birch Bayh

Politician · American · b. 1928

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Jon Corzine

Politician · American · b. 1947

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

Activist · American · 1879 – 1966

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

Journalist · American · 1829 – 1900

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

Royalty · British · 1961 – 1997

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Barbara Bush

First Lady · American · b. 1925

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Judge · American · 1906 – 1997

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

Writer · German · 1875 – 1955

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ehrlich

Politician · American · b. 1957

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Diane Watson

Politician · American · b. 1933

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

George Henry Lewes

Philosopher · English · 1817 – 1878

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Norman Jewison

Director · Canadian · b. 1926

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Jim Ramstad

Politician · American · b. 1946

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

William P. Leahy

Educator · American

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer · British · 1759 – 1797

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Annie Leibovitz

Photographer · American · b. 1949

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

Joss Whedon

Writer · American · b. 1964

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Daniel Defoe

Journalist · English

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Antonin Scalia

Judge · American · b. 1936

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Pat Buckley

Clergyman · Irish

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Diplomat · American · 1888 – 1969

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Jack Steinberger

Physicist · American · b. 1921

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb

Mathematician · Canadian · 1835 – 1909

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Heinrich Heine

Poet · German · 1797 – 1856

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton

Politician · American · b. 1947

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

Writer · French

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

Clergyman · Italian · 1881 – 1963

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Bruce Barton

Author · American · 1886 – 1967

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

Malcolm Fraser

Politician · Australian · b. 1930

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

John Thorn

Historian · American · b. 1947

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Saul Alinsky

Activist · American · 1909 – 1972

We would be there for Canada, part of our family. That is why so many in the United States are disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now.

Paul Cellucci

Politician · American · b. 1948

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

Emanuel Celler

Politician · American · 1888 – 1981

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

Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

David Antin

Poet · American · b. 1932

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