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“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.”

People Made Names Walks Family Cutting Calling Losing Ties Ties That Bind

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.”

Way Long Death Family My Family Connections Lifetime One Way Ties After Death

Author:Jessica Lange

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

Author:George Burns

“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.”

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

Children Mother Family Mom Pure Motherhood Ties Links Being A Mom Mother And Child Immaculate Mother Proverbs Mother Child Greatest Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.”

Firsts Children Whole Next House Common Family All Things Our Children Ties Whole Family

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”

Family Alive Jokes Stranger Ties Cursed

Book:Pipers and a dancer

Source: Pipers and a dancer

“Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.”

“I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.”

Knows World Feelings Purpose Family Greater Security Lonely Ties Realms Companionship Chaotic Lonely World

Book:The Strong Family

Source: The Strong Family

“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”

“When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.”

Use Family Boys Ties Necks Daddy Rope Moses Bait Swamps Alligators

Author:Jerry Reed

“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

“Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clearly formulated as by Hutten: ''Kulturbolschewismus is nothing new. It is based on a striving which humanity has had since its earliest days: the longing for happiness. It is the eternal nostalgia for paradise on earth . . . The religion of faith is replaced by the religion of pleasure.'' We, on the other hand, ask: Why not happiness on earth? Why should not pleasure be the content of life? If one were to put this question to a general vote, no reactionary ideology could stand up. The reactionary also recognizes, though in a mystical manner, the connection between mysticism and compulsive marriage and family: ''Because of this responsibility (for the possible consequences of pleasure), society has created the institution of marriage which, as a lifelong union, provides the protective frame for the sexual relationship.'' Right after this, we find the whole register of "cultural values" which, in the framework of reactionary ideology, fit together like the parts of a machine: ''Marriage as a tie, the family as a duty, the fatherland as value of its own, morality as authority, religion as obligation from eternity.'' It would be impossible better to describe the rigidity of human plasma!”

Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism