The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
#quotes #caroline-knapp #shyness #nature #interaction

Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
#quotes #amy-sedaris #time

A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
#quotes #moon-unit-zappa #family #mother

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
#quotes #loren-eiseley #nature

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
#quotes #christopher-eccleston #family #parents

To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
#quotes #abraham-cowley #future #past

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
#proverbs #stupidity