Quotes about Families
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.
— Lewis Carroll
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
— Josh McDowell
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants.
— Henry B. Eyring
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
— Steven Spielberg
All so that for tuition and textbooks they won't be short. It was always like that with Jewish families: they believed that education was an investment in the future, the only thing that no one can ever take away from your children, even if, heaven forbid, there's another war, another revolution, another migration, more discriminatory laws—your diploma you can always fold up quickly, hide it in the seams of your clothes, and run away to wherever Jews are allowed to live.
— Amos Oz
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
— John Donne
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
— Ronald Reagan
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.
— Thomas Jefferson
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
— George W. Bush
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
— Rick Warren
It will not be in the power of the President and Senate to make any treaties by which they and their families and estates will not be equally bound and affected with the rest of the community; and, having no private interests distinct from that of the nation, they will be under no temptations to neglect the latter.
— Alexander Hamilton