“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.”
— Gerald R. Ford
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“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”
— Dan Quayle
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“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”
— Francis Ford Coppola
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“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”
— Barbara Bush
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“One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.”
— Andy Murray
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“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
— Charles Eastman
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“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.”
— Jerry Falwell
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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
— H. Rap Brown
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“Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.”
— George Osborne
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“I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.”
— Kate Smith
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“My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.”
— Emeril Lagasse
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