Top 100 Family Is The Quotes
#1. The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.
Alexander Lowen
#2. For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
#3. Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
#4. To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
Mark E. Petersen
#5. Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.
Billy Graham
#6. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.
Rachel Caine
#8. 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
#9. We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
Marco Rubio
#10. Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing ... to stay alive for them.
Sylvie Meis
#11. Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'..
Peter Jennings
#13. I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Ugo Betti
#14. The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
C. G. Jung
#15. The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God.
Quentin L. Cook
#16. Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
Novak Djokovic
#17. Never forget that family is the most important thing. No matter how far your life takes you away, your family is always here. And if you're nothing else in this world, you're a Kelly, and that makes you loved.
Maya Banks
#18. The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
Bill Buford
#19. Family is the most important thing. Family starts with your wife and your kids.
Kyle Petty
#20. I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.
Tony Stewart
#21. Basketball Rule #1
In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.
Kwame Alexander
#23. They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.
Kevin Nealon
#24. The family is the key of Christmas.
Scott Hahn
#25. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#26. Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.
Joseph A. Cirrincione
#27. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.
Jeff Sharlet
#29. One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
Gabe Newell
#30. The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#31. Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide.
Soren Eberhardt
#32. 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
#33. Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.
Walter Benjamin
#34. Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.
Ivana Trump
#36. Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
Cassia Leo
#37. My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.
Scott Weiland
#39. I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.
JD Era
#40. The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.
Charlene Weir
#41. Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.
Dave Ramsey
#45. One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
Robert Byrd
#46. The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.
Jeremiah Denton
#47. I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.
David Beckham
#49. My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
Roger Federer
#50. The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.
Kate Millett
#51. How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.
Margaret Halsey
#52. Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
James McBride
#53. Your family is what you make it. The family is the people who protect and love you no matter what it costs them in the end. Family is who you keep coming back to even when all you want to do is run away.
Bethany-Kris
#54. The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
William Ruckelshaus
#55. People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.
Ivanka Trump
#56. They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.
Nayomi Munaweera
#57. 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
#58. The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.
Rick Santorum
#59. Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#60. 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
#61. Family is the only real wealth,
Barnabas
#62. Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.
Jenny Eclair
#63. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
Garret Dillahunt
#64. The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#65. What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
Augustus William Hare
#66. I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
Patti LuPone
#67. Be it good or bad, Family is the shadow that never leaves our side.
Joan Ambu
#68. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality
Quentin L. Cook
#69. A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
Ismail Kadare
#70. The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.
Pope Francis
#71. A loving family is the biggest treasure a person can ever have..
Himmilicious
#72. Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
#73. I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.
Jimmy Cliff
#74. Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.
Jerry Seinfeld
#75. I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.
Michele Bachmann
#76. The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
Nevil Shute
#77. The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.
Mike Aquilina
#78. The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
Asne Seierstad
#79. I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
Patricia Richardson
#81. Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
Gwen Stefani
#82. I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#83. The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.
Pope Francis
#84. Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
Mavis Staples
#85. In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating others.
Joe Hill
#86. Family is the most important possession you can ever have, and don't be mistaken as to what family actually is. Family are those who share the same bloodline, but more importantly, family are people who you care about and call you friend!
Robert Brent
#87. Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...
Margaret Oliphant
#88. I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.
Paula Broadwell
#89. The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.
Pope Francis
#90. The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
Felix Adler
#91. I'm a Cynster
I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence
without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.
Stephanie Laurens
#92. The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant
#93. Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.
L. Neil Smith
#94. Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
Stephen Malkmus
#95. My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.
Daesung
#96. Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
Ruth Nanda Anshen
#97. You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.
Jerrod Carmichael
#98. Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
Bill Crawford
#99. Family is everything. That is the creed in this country. But that creed gets others killed. And it slowly kills you. Your family is the first thing you'll lose. Your soul will be the last.
Karina Halle
#100. The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
Aristotle.
