The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

Katherine Heigl

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Irvin S. Cobb

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Brian Eno

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.

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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Robert Pollok

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Thomas Aquinas