Quotes About Family Values

#1. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

#2. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.

Ruth Myers

#3. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

Vann Chow

#4. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#5. I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Ednita Nazario

#6. I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

Jose Carreras

#7. At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

Marco Rubio

#8. If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

Sam Keen

#9. Values describe what you want to do, and how you want to do it - how you want to behave toward your friends, your family, your neighbors, your body, your environment, your work, etc. The

Russ Harris

#10. It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

Alex Bruce

#11. My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

James Costos

#12. When Jesus describes Judgment, the famous separation of the sheep from the goats, he does not mention religious affiliation or sexual orientation or family values. He says, "I was hungry, and ye fed me not" (Matthew 25:42).

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Jim DeMint

#14. My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

Jane Pauley

#15. Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

Neal A. Maxwell

#16. Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

David Chiles

#17. I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

Debra Paget

#18. We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Jerry Falwell

#19. I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

Byron Dorgan

#20. But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

Richard Rodriguez

#21. Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

J. Christopher Herold

#22. It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.

Hillary Clinton

#23. Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#24. Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Ronald Reagan

#25. Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

DaShanne Stokes

#26. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#27. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

Karisma Kapoor

#28. Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else.

John J. Siefring

#29. I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Roger Ebert

#30. We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#31. I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

Ted Cruz

#32. There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#33. It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Christopher Lasch

#34. When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

Patricia Ireland

#35. Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.

Cindy Margolis

#36. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#37. We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Kit Bond

#38. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#39. I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Dolly Parton

#40. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

Ted Cruz

#41. Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

Ayelet Waldman

#42. Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

Auliq Ice

#43. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Tiger Woods

#44. What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#45. What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'

Thomas Kinkade

#46. Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

Nainoa Thompson

#47. As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

Garrison Keillor

#48. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#49. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#50. Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"?

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#51. I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Tom Cruise

#52. The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Mitt Romney

#53. Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

Patricia Velasquez

#54. FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

David R. Wommack

#55. A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

Bob Allen

#56. I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

Ernie Harwell

#57. I believe in family values and following your dreams.

JoAnne Myers

#58. This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Kenny Marchant

#59. Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

Barbara Bush

#60. Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

Barbara Coloroso

#61. I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

Ray Romano

#62. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.

Anonymous

#63. Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Marian Wright Edelman

#64. Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.

Barack Obama

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

Joe Torre

#66. There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

James Heckman

#67. So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

Bill Rancic

#68. They looked like good people, but deep down they were pieces of shit. They often found they way into politics, and they talked about God, family values and country. They were the new cavaliers of the Catholic culture.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#69. My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.

Allan Ray

#70. There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Mike Royko

#71. 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

#72. The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates against no race, religion, or gender.

Mark Levin

#73. Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.

Ken Norton

#74. 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

#75. When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.

Lionel Sosa

#76. I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Dikembe Mutombo

#77. When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

#78. Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?

Chris Bent

#79. Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

Paul Vitz

#80. You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Birch Bayh

#81. I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.

Debbie Macomber

#82. And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

John F. Kerry

#83. To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

Reese Witherspoon

#84. If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you.

William J. Clinton

#85. Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

Allan Dare Pearce

#86. You mustn't throw them away. Let me have them.

Diane Samuels

#87. I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

Wendy Cope

#88. I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#89. I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

Salvador Minuchin

#90. My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

Phil Zuckerman

#91. A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

#92. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Kofi Annan

#93. Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Gary Oldman

#94. Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.

Nikki Haley

#95. Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Tony Campolo

#96. It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.

Christina Engela

#97. I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.

John Kasich

#98. There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendy Cope

#99. Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back

Azin Sametipour

#100. I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Anne Hathaway