family

"I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington."

"You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat."

"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children."

"Can you weep for Him with intense longing of heart? Men shed a jugful of tears for the sake of their children, for their wives, or for money. But who weeps for God? So long as the child remains engros…"

"Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out."

"A well-appointed prison is still a prison."

"How I Met Your Mother"

"Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do."

"There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons."

"So, yes, death. When you're young, you think about it… Well, you don't really think about it, you know - you have the intelligence of raspberry jam, you're not thinking about anything. But it's there,…"

"The evidence of this is all about us, in our wealth, our educational facilities, our charities, our religious institutions, and in the moral influence which we exert on the world. Most of all, it is a…"

"Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own."

"Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must mak…"

"Books, the children of the brain."

"Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children."

"It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it."

"It is not easy to become an educated person."

"The most important personal ‘core competence’ by far is a rich set of relationships."

"It is this diffused spirit of Christianity rather than the conscious purpose of organized Christianity which has been the chief moral force in social changes. It has often taken its finest form in her…"

"And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans. About building your pipelines through Afghanistan. And how Israeli troops trained the Taliban in Pakistan."