A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be membe...
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Any man that puts other family first before his own immediate family is sure heading for a future disaster because; family is everything”.
If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening appearances manifest. It is considered a sign of progress in this practice if we go unconscious, and then, when we wake up, have f...
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are th...
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.
Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.
I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.
You sure you want to come with me?” I said. “The odds are not good.” “We’re family,” said Suzie. I had to smile. “I haven’t been all that lucky when it comes to family.” “We’re the family you chose,” said Dead Boy. “The fami...
