Family Unit Quotes

#1. Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Michael Novak

#2. This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.

Kourtney Kardashian

#3. He remembered the excitement, the conversations at home, wondering about her: how she would look, who she would be, how she would fit into their established family unit.

Lois Lowry

#4. One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

Paul Prudhomme

#5. Amish culture is built around preserving and protecting the family unit.

Serena B. Miller

#6. Chinese society is organised around the family unit.

Guo Guangchang

#7. The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

Bruce R. McConkie

#8. The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#9. Source of national strength. By providing leadership, guidance, restraint, security, and values, the family unit promotes the greatness of the nation. Should the family fail in these responsibilities, the nation will suffer as a result.

John Eidsmoe

#10. The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

Luis Gutierrez

#11. We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

Lenny Kravitz

#12. Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#13. It is not wrong or bigoted to believe American society is stronger and that the family unit is better served when marriage is between a man and a woman. It is also not wrong for homosexual Americans to want to get as much parity as they can.

Bill O'Reilly

#14. The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

Sarah Price

#15. The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

Henry B. Eyring

#16. I've been asked for years to do a reality show. One of my criteria is that I would be given the opportunity to show a strong family unit.

Kim Fields

#17. I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure.

Drew Sidora

#18. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Nicolle Wallace

#19. The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#20. I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

John Le Carre

#21. I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#22. 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

#23. The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

Samuel R. Delany

#24. The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Larry Burkett

#25. You can not have sex with a guy on a regular basis and not develop deeper feelings for him. It's impossible. Mother Nature didn't build women to be able to do things like that. We were designed to be monogamous and hold the family unit together.

Cat Johnson

#26. Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

James G. Watt

#27. I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.

Seal

#28. It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

Billy Graham

#29. I will show you the same amount of mercy given to your family. You turned your back on twenty-five years of marriage, destroyed the family unit, and put everyone through years of heartbreak and therapy.

Virginia Aird

#30. Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Lois Lowry

#31. Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

Karan Johar

#32. You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing ... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

Sam Worthington

#33. A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

#34. Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit.

Ezra Taft Benson

#35. The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Ashley Montagu

#36. We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

Dixie Carter

#37. I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society, and I don't believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority.

Stephen Baldwin

#38. Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

Sylvester Stallone

#39. Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

Dan T. Cathy

#40. In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.

Sil Lai Abrams

#41. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Salvador Minuchin

#42. When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jerry Falwell

#43. 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

#44. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#45. It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.

Nia Long

#46. 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

#47. The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#48. Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Kara Swisher

#49. Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#50. Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

Jack Kemp

#51. In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

John Eisenhower

#52. The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

Jeffrey Pierce

#53. The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God.

Quentin L. Cook

#54. The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

Pope Francis

#55. The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles Eastman

#56. The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they've developed together as a group.

Terry Riley

#57. I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Atom Egoyan

#58. Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

Billy Graham

#59. The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.

Brian Whitman

#60. 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

#61. In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

George Ayittey

#62. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#63. I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately.

John Cena

#64. Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life ...

George Will

#65. Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.

Corliss Lamont

#66. The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

M. Russell Ballard

#67. 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

#68. A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

#69. This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.

Kate Morton

#70. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

#71. You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.

Cecelia Ahern

#72. Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#73. Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#74. Because every family is a distinct cultural unit, it is good that our methods differ. God did not intend for us to walk in lockstep with one another. We ought to rejoice in a common commitment to biblical principles and in the variety of methods God's people employ.

Nancy Wilson

#75. The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Caleb Colton

#76. Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Arthur Compton

#77. Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce

#78. I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

Guy Lafleur

#79. I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Moon Unit Zappa

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Evan Esar

#83. A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Kate Middleton