The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done. ~Josh Turner
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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