American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation…

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied...

There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied...

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the...

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the...

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School...

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School...

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round...

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round...

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would...

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would...

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving...

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

We all have a family member who think they're a professional photographer.

We all have a family member who think they're a professional photographer.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter...

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter...

There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.

There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.

Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.

Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being...

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being...

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.