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“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

Ifs Knows World States Feelings Funny Family Five Minutes Like You Fairs Parenthood Five Minutes Royalty Alright You Might Be A Redneck If Dysfunctional Family Craziest Funny Family

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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

“In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.”

Years Made States Seems Family Insane Drivers License Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Phyllis Diller

“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

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.”

Knows Way Littles Important States Enjoy Family Five Week Havens Six Music Is My Family Important Things Tired

Author:Joe Pass

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”

“Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.”

Ifs Men World Children Doe States Care Asks Family Greater Particular Expected Bliss Delightful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings

“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

Source: Memoirs

“The family is more sacred than the state.”

States Family Sacred

Book:Christian Marriage

Source: Christian Marriage

“Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.”

Ifs States United Family United States College Gang

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.”

Men States Cities Family Holy Standards Sacred Appeals Criticize

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.”

States Differences Known Family Doors Quiet Weakness Determine Parliament Keeping Quiet

Author:John Donne