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“But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.”

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”

“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

“I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

“I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy.”

“My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.”

“My family's the most important thing in my life.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”

“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.”

“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”