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“With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?”

Children Said Hands Family Theory Kissing Strikes Sunday Psychologist Slap My Birthday Measles

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.”

Helping Hands Government Friendship Community Family Neighbor Neighborhood Helping Hand

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”

Children Hands Seems Family Humorous Parenting Parenthood Bites Feeding Having Kids Funny Father

Author:Peter De Vries

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.”

Kind Reason Hands Mother Lost Family Saws Picks Mad Fishes Bags Wet Garbage Thirteen Teaspoons

Author:Robert Fulghum

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”

“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”

Mind May Children Hands School Order Family Wonderful Generations Bears Honor One Day Add Your Children Wonderful Things Inheritance

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”

Source: Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”

Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.”

Hands Kids Church Family My Family Sunday Only Time

Author:Darius Rucker

“I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”

“If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.”

Ifs Children Hands Father Family Audience Wife Performances Following Palms Versatile

Author:Maureen Howard

“Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.”

Long Hands Girl Asks Family Shops Mama Your Freedom

Author:Smokey Robinson

“He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.”

Years Mean Soul Hands Family Discipline Gentle His Love Velvet Sculpting

Author:Dan Fogelberg