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about the Family When family pride ceases to act, individual selfishness comes into play. Alexis de Tocqueville The family is the nucleus of civilization. Will Durant Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Andre Maurois The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. Nancy Mitford Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash 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 A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Charles R Swindoll Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. Clare Boothe Luce Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Paul Johnson You have to make a family where you can find it. Stephanie Coontz The family is the first essential cell of human society. Pope John XXIII Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. F Scott Fitzgerald If it comes to a collision between our wealth as a nation and the wellbeing of families - I choose families. David Cameron The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. August Strindberg | |