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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Ancestry
Fred A. Allen

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None but a mule denies his family.
Family
Arabian Proverb

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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Family
Richard Bach

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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Family
Anita Baker

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Family
Stella Benson

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
Marriage
Josh Billings

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Censorship
Thomas Bowdler

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Cheerfulness
Sir John Bowring

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Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Family
Anthony Brandt

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Family
Jerry Brown

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
Family
Buddha

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
Family
Jimmy Buffett

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

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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
Family
William S. Burroughs

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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Appreciation
Barbara Bush

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Family
Chinese Proverb

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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Family
Chinese Proverb

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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Family
Confucius

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Family is the most important thing in the world.
Family
Princess of Wales Diana

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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Family
William J. Durant

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A small family is soon provided for.
Family
English Proverb

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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
Prudence
French Proverb

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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Pride
W. S. Gilbert

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Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.
Family
Marmontel Gretry

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
Food and Eating
Buddy Hackett

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun