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"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."	Henry Ford
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."	Bertrand Russell
"Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts."	Author Unknown
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."	Barbara Bush
"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."	Margaret Thatcher
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."	George Santayana
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."	Robert Frost
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."	Robert Frost
"You get a little stir crazy during the week."	Ronald Reagan
"Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that."	Ronald Reagan
"Now, here I am, sort of living above the store again."	Ronald Reagan
"We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the government didn't come around telling you you were poor."	Ronald Reagan
"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."	George Bernard Shaw
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."	George Bernard Shaw
"Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms. The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind."	Thomas Jefferson
"What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories."	George Eliot
"You can touch them with your eyes."	Pablo Picasso
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."	George Burns
"She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them."	Rebecca West
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."	Leo Tolstoy
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