Family Values Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Sex, Alternatives, Benefits

  8 Copy quote

• You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Transcendentalism, Influence

  18 Copy quote

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Fighting, Government

  66 Copy quote

• 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

  Country, Television, Radio

  7 Copy quote

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  June, Play, Religion

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

  Tia Carrere

  Heart, Soul, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

  Bob Menendez

  Strong, Quilts, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Christopher Bond

  Needs, Saving, Investment

  7 Copy quote

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

  Birch Bayh

  Thinking, Needs, Republican

  7 Copy quote

• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  Wally Lamb

  Love, Shapes, Crowds

  8 Copy quote

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Trying, States, Values

  7 Copy quote

• Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Subway, Life Is, Pocketbooks

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Cindy Margolis

  America, Fertility, Procedures

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, Republican, Claims

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Thinking, Long, People

  6 Copy quote

• I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Fun, Sun

  Dr. Seuss, Carlos Rivera (1967). “El gato ensombrerado”, Random House Books for Young Readers

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  39 Copy quote

• Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Practice, Nurture, Policy

  4 Copy quote

• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Together, Hindsight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  Kurt Bills

  Believe, Government, Liberty

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Fortune, Raised, Large Family

  4 Copy quote

• I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.

  Segolene Royal

  School, Numbers, Environmental

  "Is this the face of France's first Madame la Présidente?" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2006.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source