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- So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
- Haniel Long
- It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- William James Durant
- Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
- Pearl S. Buck
- What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little
- Stanislaus
- Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
- Johann Von Schiller
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
- Author Unknown
- Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- John Christian Bovee
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