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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”

Want Feels Age Young Family Careers Football International More Time Retiring Age 30

Author:Robbie Savage

“I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.”

Age Religious Family Five Grew Grew Up Ran Reading Books Religious Love Religious Family

Author:Akhmad Kadyrov

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”

Children Age Law Mother Father Family Wife Responsible Affair Ill Administration Maturity Reasonable Competence Being Responsible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?”

Knows Inspirational Persons Motivational Age Family Institutions Average Average Person Did You Know Last Kiss

Author:Rachel Bilson

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

Children Age Realizing Family Adults Maturity Adulthood

Author:Thomas Szasz

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“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.”

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

“The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.”

Children Age Parent Family Despise

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that”

“I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.”

Knows Children Age Wish Family Stronger Birthday Child Abuse Family Love

Author:Cameron Diaz

“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”

“The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.”

Age Funny Family Boys Five Dog Ideals Fifty Forty

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.”

People Giving Humans Persons Different Reason Helping Home Age Together Culture Grows Community Family Relation Treasure Encounters Crucial Fulfilled Family Love Place In Life

Author:Pope Francis

“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.”

Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"