Family Unit Quotes:

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

- Evan Esar

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Inspirational Family, Parking

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Large Family, Family Unit

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

- Jeremiah Denton

topic: Attitude, Civilization, Culture, Family Unit

It is not wrong or bigoted to believe American society is stronger and that the family unit is better served when marriage is between a man and a woman. It is also not wrong for homosexual Americans to want to get as much parity as they can.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Believe, Gay, Men, Parity, Family Unit

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

topic: Strong, School, Kids, Social Programs, Strong Family

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

- Nick Nolte

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Family Unit

Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

- Sylvester Stallone

source: "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

topic: Running, People, Shining, Family Unit

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

- Lenny Kravitz

source: "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Becoming, Narcissistic, Losing, Family Unit, One On One

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

- Larry Burkett

topic: Years, Black, Slavery, Family Unit, Black Family

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Family, Women, Play, Family Unit

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Family, Organization, Important, Family Unit

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

- Ashley Montagu

source: "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

topic: Systematic, Mental Illness, Institutions, Family Unit

The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have nowhere to go. But we cannot become one happy family, because we are not. So, we have to divide the house into two smaller apartments and learn how to say, "good morning" in the hall every day. Eventually, perhaps we will pop in on each other for a cup of coffee. But we need this semi-detached house, a two-family unit.

- Amos Oz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Morning, Coffee, Two, Family Unit

Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

- James G. Watt

source: U.S. News and World Report, November 11, 1985.

topic: Government, America, Work Ethic, Family Unit

How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.

- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

topic: Jobs, Husband, Independent, Family Unit

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

- Valerie Solanas

source: Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

topic: Community, Society, Units, Pretense, Family Unit

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

- James Dobson

topic: Family, Loyalty, Children, Large Family, Family Unit

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

- Michael Novak

topic: Marriage, Welfare, Units, Lasting Marriage, Family Unit

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

- Rodman Philbrick

source: Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Mom, Dad, Little Sister, Family Unit

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

- Dan T. Cathy

source: "Dan Cathy, Chick-Fil-A President, On Anti-Gay Stance: ‘Guilty As Charged’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

topic: Biblical, Supportive, Definitions, Family Unit

If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.

- L. Tom Perry

topic: Children, Father, Lds, Family Unit

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Church, Fundamentals, Eternal Life, Family Unit

There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Husband, Grief, Loss, Family Unit, Next Life

God loves all of His children. He has provided a plan for His children to enjoy the choicest blessings that He has to offer in eternity. Those choicest blessings are associated with marriage between a man and a woman by appropriate priesthood authority to bring together a family unit for creation and happiness in this life and in the life to come.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Children, Blessing, Men, Family Unit

The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.

- Louise J. Kaplan

topic: Passion, Past, Issues, Family Unit, New Family

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

- Luis Gutierrez

topic: Immigration, Bills, Units, Family Unit

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

topic: Character, Thinking, Males, Cohesiveness, Family Unit

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

- Nicolle Wallace

topic: Believe, Treasure, Want, Family Unit

Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

- Valerie Solanas

source: "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

topic: Couple, Moving, Kids, Family Unit

Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance.

- Martyn

topic: Home, Ideas, Broken, Family Unit

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

- Paul Prudhomme

topic: Broken, People, Together, Family Unit

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

topic: Children, Home, School, Family Unit

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

- John le Carre

topic: Fatherhood, Example, Able, Domestic Life, Family Unit