When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands. — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“...we are trying, in a world of increasing complexity, to create a simpler and more understandable place for ourselves. No longer do… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export. — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
“One important thing was not to forget what he hoped to achieve in life. Another important thing was not to confuse a… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“In rural societies, large families are almost always the norm. In urban societies, families choose to have fewer children. This is the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I’d buy a whole series of numbers, search the Web for the names and addresses of large families (birthday party announcements… — Daniel Domscheit-Berg Copy Share Image
“Goodness appears to be both rare and hard to picture. It is perhaps most convincingly met with in simple people - inarticulate,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control. — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families:… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“What, I wonder, does the reader know of large families? More important, how much can he stand hearing on the subject, from… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
