Family Foundation Quotes

#1. We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#3. When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

George Soros

#4. As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

Serinda Swan

#5. The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Henry R. Van Til

#6. You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

Lilly Singh

#7. Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Dalai Lama

#8. A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

Jim Bunning

#9. Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

Tinie Tempah

#10. As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Joseph P. Bradley

#11. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

Tiger Woods

#12. Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.

Nancy B. Brewer

#13. Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

Carlos Wallace

#14. You want a woman who shares your belief and your faith because that is usually your core. So, you want a woman whom you know can stand on that same foundation you both equally embrace and share. You also want a woman who is ambitious but also knows how to balance it with family.

Tony Gaskins

#15. Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Erin Pizzey

#16. After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.

Anthony Hamilton

#17. Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

Faith Hill

#18. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

#19. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

Michelle Williams

#21. In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.

Gretchen Carlson

#22. To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

Mark E. Petersen

#23. We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.

Spencer W. Kimball

#24. I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

Ian Somerhalder

#25. No subject is closer to my heart than the family ... The moral foundation of our country is in danger of crumbling as families break up and parents neglect their responsibilities.

Billy Graham

#26. Love is the foundation of strength in a family.

Melissa Foster

#27. My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

Faith Hill

#28. I shall be satisfied if young people who read this record of our lives and adventures should learn from it how admirably suited is the peaceful, industrious life of a cheerful and united family to the foundation of strong, pure, and manly character.

J.H. Stickney

#29. There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children.

Jonathan Franzen

#30. Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

Jerome Kagan

#31. Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

Melanie Brown

#32. The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Ronald Reagan

#33. (Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.

David J. Vaughan

#34. Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.

Abraham Kuyper

#35. We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

Ezra Taft Benson

#36. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.

Melinda Gates

#37. Family is forever and the most important foundation in life.

Kristen Taekman

#38. A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Eric Cantona

#39. The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Mencius

#40. I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

Isabel Allende

#41. The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

Pope Francis

#42. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

Quentin L. Cook

#43. Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

Gautama Buddha

#44. I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Alonzo Mourning

#45. The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.

Bill O'Reilly

#46. While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Jane Jacobs

#47. Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

Camila Alves

#48. I believe the family is the foundation of America
and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.

Mitt Romney

#49. there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Mitch Albom

#50. I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

Karen Finerman

#51. When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

Lynn Schusterman

#52. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

Sunday Adelaja

#53. God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

Tony Evans

#54. Understand, respect, and embrace other people's uniqueness. That is the foundation of any relationship - spouses, significant others, family, friends, etc. We are not the same and those differences are why relationships work. Spicing up a relationship with compromise!

David Mezzapelle

#55. The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

Helen Andelin

#56. 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 Dobson

#57. The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

Faith Hill

#58. Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Ramsey Clark

#59. Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Constance Marie

#60. Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

Jean Charest

#61. 'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

Joe Torre

#62. I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

Mandy Moore

#63. Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

Ronald Reagan

#64. We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Jena Malone

#65. Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.

Farshad Asl

#66. Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Donny Osmond

#67. The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Jim Bunning

#68. And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

John Boehner

#69. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Bill Walton