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“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”

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Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.”

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Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.”

Whole Family Hell Beats Raises Papa

Author:James Brown

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source: Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.”

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Book:Bill Cosby on Fatherhood

Source: Bill Cosby on Fatherhood

“The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.”

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Author:Merle Haggard