Family
Healthy families are our greatest national resource.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
Unkindness is death to the home. One unkind, unsocial, critical, eternally dissatisfied member can destroy any family.
With relatives, long distance is even better than being there.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Family is just accident—They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.
Family life! The United Nations is child’s play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one’s family call for immediate attack.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
When all of us had time to be together, we didn’t want to share it with outsiders. As a result the Kennedy children became natives of the Kennedy family, first and foremost, before any city or any country.
Every family is a “normal” family – no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way—Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.
