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Home and Family

 "A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living." – Charles Swindoll

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." – George Santayana

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Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing." -Jim Rohn

"Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance." -Milton R. Saperstein

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich." Colonel Potter – M*A*S*H

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."  - Joyce Brothers

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.  Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."  - Paul Pearshall

"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst." - Marge Kennedy

"Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

"Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others." – Sidonie Gruenberg 

"Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted." - George A. Dorsey

"Happy laughter and family voices in the home will keep more kids off the streets at night than the strictest curfew." - Oneliners and Proverbs

"Without question, what you do at home makes all the difference when it comes to what kind of student your child will be" - V. Poretta & M. Edelman, Mom's Guide to Raising a Good Student

"A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body." - Margaret Fuller

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