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A healthy family is sacred territory.

Family ties are precious things
woven through the years,
of memories of togetherness
of laughter, love and tears.

Family ties are cherished things
forged in childhood days,
by love of parents, deep and true
and sweet familiar ways.

Family ties are treasured things
and far though we may roam,
the tender bonds with those we love
still pull our hearts toward home.

Our little ones, whom you so often recommend to my care and instruction, shall not be deficient in virtue or probity, if the precepts of a mother have their desired effect; but they would be doubly enforced, could they be indulged with the example of a father alternately before them. I often point them to their sire, -----"engaged in a corrupted state, Wrestling with vice and faction." -- Abigail Adams

The family is the school of duties... founded on love. Felix Adler

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. --Anthony Brandt

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. John Bowring

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. George Carlin

The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the family, are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind. Aunt Elizabeth is unreasonable, like mankind. Papa is excitable, like mankind. Our youngest brother is mischievous, like mankind. Grandpapa is stupid, like the world; he is old, like the world.... The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born. -- G.K.C.

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers. -- Charles Chincholles

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.---Winston Churchill

State power is the messianic force through which the Left intends to implement its social redemption, and the family is the last bulkwark against the power of the state......the family is the enemy of progress and profressives everywhere. - Peter Collier and David Horowitz, "It's a War Stupid!", Heterodoxy, Nov 1996

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. James C. Dobson

People talk about "dysfunctional" families; I've never seen any other kind. -- Sue Grafton

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.--Theodore Hesburgh

There is no synthetic replacement for a decent home life. Our high crime rate, particularly among juveniles, is directly traceable to a breakdown in moral fiber--to the disintegration of home and family life. Religion and home life are supplementary. Each strengthens the other. It is seldom that a solid and wholesome home life can be found in the absence of religious inspiration. --J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) _Christian Herald_

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance, waiting in line for the bathroom. -- Bob Hope

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. John Paul II, 1986

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Paul Johnson

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison. Chris Evert Lloyd (1954-____)

The devil has a great spite at Christ's kingdom and he knows no better way to crush it than by the perversion of youth, and family duties. He strikes at all church duties but at family duties with more success because the practice is not so seriously and conscientiously regarded as it should be, and neglecting it is not liable to be noticed or rebuked.-- Thomas Manton

Religion was established first in families and there the devil seeks to crush it.The family is the training ground for both the Church and the State and if children are not well-principled there, all will fail. The fathers of families have as truly the charge of the souls in those families, as pastors have of the churches.-- Thomas Manton

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united. Margaret of Youville

The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace. -- Daniel P Moynihan

From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Article in a Jesuit magazine at the time of publication of his report on the black family (mid-60s)

Feelings 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 nuturing family. --Virginia Satir

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.-George Bernard Shaw

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. ---Homer Simpson

[on Spurgeon's college not having residential accommodations] The residence of a number of young men in one house encourages andnecessarily generates levity; their separation from common social life is a serious injury, and tends to unfit them for the wear and tear of future work among ordinary mortals. When a young man resides in a Christian family, not only is he under the most vigilant oversight, but he never ceases to be one of the people.
C. H. Spurgeon. Letters, p.115

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.Desmond Tutu (1931-____)Address at enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, 7 Sep 1986.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. Denzel Washington (1954-____)

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"