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I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
— Dean Jones
Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.
— David Starkey
Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it's a family club. You get to know the physios, the kit man, the chefs. It's also a club that's very close to the supporters. That proximity to the fans makes it special. That was surprising. In Liverpool and Madrid, there's more distance.
— Xabi Alonso
Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as well.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
— Samuel Johnson
All men know their children mean more than life.
— Euripides
Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.
— Audrey Hepburn
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
— Charles Spurgeon
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
— Dennis Prager
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
— Euripides