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“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness ...
We all need the right words to pick us up from time to time.
Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family. The best Archie Bunker quotes are courtesy of creator Norman Lear.As a progressive, Lear himself was the opposite of Bunker's "lovable bigot ...
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the proverb, blood could be a metaphor for national or clan affiliations rather than biological kinship. For instance, in Clan-Albin, the characters are debating whether the small and soft Flora has pure enough clan ties to marry into the Craig-gillian family, who prefer "Amazonian daughters". [14]
The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.
family over everything: frequently used as a family motto fas est et ab hoste doceri: It is lawful to be taught even by an enemy: Ovid, Metamorphoses 4:428 Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit: He who flies from justice acknowledges himself a criminal. Under such circumstances the presumption is one of guilt. [2] febris amatoria: fever of love
Family Sayings (Original title Lessico famigliare) is a novel by the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, first published in 1963.The book, which has also been published in English under the titles The Things We Used to Say and Family Lexicon, is a semi-biographical description of aspects of the daily life of her family, dominated by her father, the renowned histologist, Giuseppe Levi.
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour."