Quotes about Family

Behold the secret conspiracy between mother and son, and how each helps the other to betray life.

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh' (Genesis 2:24 NRSV). This radically upside-down statement would have shocked the original readers of Genesis and should shock us too. I don't know of any culture where men are depicted as clinging to their wives. Certainly within a patriarchal world, this is getting things backwards. There the wife leaves her parents and is absorbed into her husband's family.

A woman's mission centered on home and family — vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.