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  • I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

  • 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.

    Life   Family   Sorrow  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.182
  • Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

    Men   Rights   People  
    Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.
  • I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

  • I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

    Family   Children   Want  
    Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.
  • There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

  • Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

    Numbers   Haiti   Economy  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  • Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

    Family   Children   Home  
  • We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

    Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.7, e-artnow
  • The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

    Men   Pilots   Tests  
    Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
  • Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.

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

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

    "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
  • In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  • In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

    Children   Parent   Today  
    Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company
  • I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

    Growing Up   Home   Kids  
    "Robert Rodriguez Interview" by Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.
  • ... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

    Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press
  • It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

  • I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

    "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.
  • Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  • We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

    Family   Character   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics
  • A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  • And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

    "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.
  • In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

  • We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

    Family   War   Home  
  • My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

    Mother   Brother   Dad  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

    FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012
  • When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

    Life   Family   Happiness  
    "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.
  • I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

    'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1
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