Family Values Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Family, Home, Government

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  Children, School, Mean

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• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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• 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

  Country, Home, America

  "A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. August 1997.

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• Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Life, Money, Two

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• Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Community, Church

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• Loving families value effort as much as success.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Effort, Loving Family

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• 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

  Teeth, Generations, Agendas

  "Mothers in Chains". www.salon.com. May 24, 2005.

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• Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain family by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.

  Doc Childre

  Real, Heart, Differences

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• You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Country, Children, Helping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Thinking, Light, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Roger Ebert

  Patriotic, Reasonable, Values

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• We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Dad, Memories

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• When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Body, Want

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• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Best Effort

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

  Bob Allen

  Abuse, Clamor, Blindness

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• As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

  Jools Holland

  People, Trying, Helping

  "Jools Holland: My family values". Interview with Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.

  Surya Das

  Children, Safety, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I am proud to say how many people I employ. And the United States first, second and third generation Mexicans are just beyond reproach, spectacular, spectacular hardworking people. I have such great respect for them and their strong values of family, faith and community.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, People, Community

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• More women are working because they have to, that's what it takes to put the food on the table and pay the rent. And yet we have not changed our policies to support the family. The right wing goes to the floor, and they did when they were in power, and talk about family values. Well, where are they? Family values is support for child care. Family values is equal pay for equal work so that women are paid appropriately.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Children, Support, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person.
  My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

  Kathy Ireland

  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

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• You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

  John F. Kerry

  Daughter, Son, Armor

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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