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“unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.”

Silence Family Break Unhappy Conspiracy Forgiven Silence Is Happy Family Never Forgive Unhappy Family

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

Ifs Father Causes Brain Family Break Caught Damage Marijuana

Author:Tom Dreesen

“Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.”

Littles Humanity Family Break Relation Institutions Deny

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”

Family Break Conditions Policy Particular Broken Program Crisis Institutions Scope Recessions Explicit Haphazard Patchwork

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”

Family Break Missing Breakup Break Up Hints Thanksgiving Day

Author:Robert Frost

“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.”

“A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".”

Long Said Father United Family Break Son Picks Lays Sticks Bunch Vain Ease My Son Teamwork Farmers Parallels Undone Binding Bundles

Author:Aesop

“If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance”

Ifs World Love Life Able Happiness Success Attitude Family Break This World Forgiving Cycles Bitterness Vengeance Power Of Forgiveness

Author:James Augustus St. John

“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.”

Giving Mother Strong Family Break Giving Up Daughter Ties Never Giving Up Never Ever Give Up

Author:Rachel Billington