Traditional Family Quotes

• It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

  Kamisese Mara

  Religious, Jesus, Teaching

  Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

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• On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

  Drew Barrymore

  Growing Up, Tables, Safe

  "Drew Barrymore on Making Wine, Cooking for Her Family, and Getting 'Swept Up' in the Food Movement". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. July 16, 2013.

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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 you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.

  Rafael Cruz

  Rights, Homosexual Marriage, Destruction

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

  Rick Santorum

  Keys, Accomplishment, Feminist

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Religious, Children

  "A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

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• You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father... I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Senate kills ban on gay marriage" by Ann McFeatters, www.post-gazette.com. July 15, 2004.

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

  James H. Douglas

  America, Community, Tradition

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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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• Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Men, Past

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

  Tony Snow

  Pain, Careers, Special

  "Now, the Theophobes", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2004.

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• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

  Denise Mina

  Nice, Air, People

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• Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

  Rafael Cruz

  Religious, Patriotic, Pro Life

  "Rafael Cruz, Father Of Sen. Ted Cruz, Offers Advice On GOP Latino Outreach". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

  Rita Dove

  Mother, Children, Book

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage.

  Francis George

  Law, Goal, Reason

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.

  Rafael Cruz

  Loyalty, Homosexual Marriage, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Past, Journey

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• Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

  Rick Santorum

  Healthy, Adultery, Polygamy

  "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

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• I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Important, Way, Lifestyle

  "Hollywood’s hottest husband is Chris O’Donnell, see poll" by Cathy Heys, www.irishcentral.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Animal, Government

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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