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Quotes About Family

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.
~ Erin Pizzey
Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.
~ Gary Yourofsky
When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.
~ Benjamin Watson
I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.
~ David Cross
And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
~ Malik Yoba
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
~ Madeleine Albright
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
~ K. Hari Kumar
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
~ Ashley Montagu
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
~ Donald Miller
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
~ George Augustus Henry Sala
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
~ Ronald Reagan
Families are the bedrock of our society.
~ Hillary Clinton
The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.
~ Laura Schlessinger
My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.
~ M. Russell Ballard
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
~ Mark Steyn
The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.
~ Max Anders
I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
~ Lisa Murkowski
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
~ Pat Buchanan
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
~ Margo MacDonald
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
~ T. D. Jakes
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
~ James E. Faust