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“The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.”

Men Two Country States Character Literature Family Fronts Old Man Spills Naturalism True Life Vests Hypochondriac

Book:Love Conquers All

Source: Love Conquers All

“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body.”

Persons Has Beens Character Body Reality Actors Easy Challenges Work Family Generations Human Nature Health Transformation Strategy Individuality Access Personal Transformation

Author:Kerry Washington

“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.”

Character Feelings Home Might Care Father Given Family Knowing Missing Ought Concern Letters Longing Tenderness Not Knowing Advise

Author:John Adams

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

Children Littles Character Mother Education Family Example Mom Knees Formation Hearsay Wounded Knee

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”

Thinking Love Character Happiness Family Integrity Ethics Being Real Theft True Character Honor And Integrity Personality Flaws No Integrity

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”

“Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.”

People Children Character Parent Family Relationship Shapes Advise Right Direction

Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”

Ifs Love Years Children Character Home Easy Family Honest Dad Function Plant Seeds Parents Home

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character”

Ifs Thinking Love Life Character Beautiful Happiness Success Attitude Family

Author:Jerry Hall

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.”

May Philosophy Character Family Wife Society Influence Accidents Expected Lofty Sanctify Micawber

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.”

Character Stories Common Family Circles Theme Association

Author:Gus Van Sant

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

Source: Wealth of Words