Family Quotes
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The goals of our public welfare program must be positive and constructive. [The welfare program] must stress the integrity and preservation of the family unit. It must contribute to the attack on dependency, juvenile delinquency, family breakdown, illegitimacy, ill health, and disability. It must reduce the incidence of these problems, prevent their occurrence and recurrence, and strengthen and protect the vulnerable in a highly competitive world.
-- John F. Kennedy
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.
-- Eda Leshan
* "Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is."
-- Madonna
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
-- Margaret Mead"It takes ONE FAMILY to make a difference in this COMMUNITY. It takes ONE PERSON to make a difference in this FAMILY."
-- Nisandeh Neta,Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
~Marsha Norman"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.
- Dan O'Neill, Founder, Mercy Corps
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart.
-- Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the HeartFamily isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
~Paul PearshallYour family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn
* "I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family."
-- Susan SarandonFeelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
-- Virginia SatirAmerican families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.
-- Ben Silliman
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
-- Gloria Steinem
"The whole world is one family."
-- Sun Yat-sen"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."
-- Charles Swindoll
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu
Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.
-- Denzel Washington
International Day of Families - May 15
Family Day - September 26
