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  Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
 
(Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. letter, Dec. 18, 1942, to Sumner Welles. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 451, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952).)
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  A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
 
(Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. "In Plato's Cave," On Photography (1977).)
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  It is turning three hundred years
On our cisatlantic shore
For family after family name.
We'll make it three hundred more

 
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Serious Step Lightly Taken.")
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  For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.
 
(Stephanie Coontz (20th century), U.S. historian. The Way We Were, ch. 1 (1992).)
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  Every family has bad memories.
 
(Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather III, to his son Tony after the young man has told his father he wants to become a singer rather than become the family lawyer because of Tony's bad memories of the Corleone clan (1990). A significant line considering the cinematic history of the Corleone family.)
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  The family that prays together stays together.
 
(Al Scalpone (20th century). Slogan devised for the Roman Catholic Family Rosary Crusade in 1947.)
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  The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
 
(Francis Picabia (1878-1953), French painter, poet. repr. In Yes No: Poems and Sayings, "Sayings," trans. by Rémy Hall (1990). "Pithecomorphes," no. 6, Littérature, Second Series (Paris, Nov. 1, 1922).)
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  Family living can go on existing. Very many are
remembering this thing are remembering that family
living living can go on existing. Very many are quite
certain that family living can go on existing. Very
many are remembering that they are quite certain that
family living can go on existing.

 
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1903-1911), originally published Paris, Contact Editions (1925). The Making of Americans, Something Else Press (1969). This is the summation of Stein's major novel, from the last of its 925 pages. The plot and characters are less significant than the writing style; this passage is characteristic of most of the book.)
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  One theme links together these new proposals for family policy—the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in structure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.
 
(Joseph Featherstone (20th century), U.S. social critic. "Family Matters," Harvard Educational Review, vol. 49 (February 1979).)
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  The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.
 
(Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 2 (1983).)
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