Alan Paton Quotes

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

The family is the most important unit of society…. When all is said and done, there is nothing more important than the family.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I really like reading about how families work together.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

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

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

I believe in the traditional American family, and I will do everything that I can to promote, you know, families.

The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

I'm very family-oriented.