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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. (Alexander Lloyd)
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. (Alexander Lloyd)
Family is the most important thing in the world. (Alexander Lloyd)
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. (Alexander Lloyd)
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The family is the nucleus of civilization. (Alexander Lloyd)
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. (Alexander Lloyd)
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. (Alexander Lloyd)
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. (Alexander Lloyd)
The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. (Alexander Lloyd)
Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. (Alexander Lloyd)
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. (Alexander Lloyd)
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. (Alexander Lloyd)
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home. (Alexander Lloyd)
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. (Alexander Lloyd)
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way. (Alexander Lloyd)
My family begins with me, your family ends with you. (Alexander Lloyd)
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? (Alexander Lloyd)
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. (Alexander Lloyd)
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Alexander Lloyd)
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. (Alexander Lloyd)
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. (Alexander Lloyd)
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. (Alexander Lloyd)
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family. (Alexander Lloyd)
When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me. (Alexander Lloyd)
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. (Alexander Lloyd)
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