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If
tolerance, respect and equity permeate family
life, they will translate into values that
shape societies, nations and the world.
-– Kofi
Annan
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let
us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well-
being of families throughout the world.
-– Kofi
Annan
The
global work of the United Nations is not without reason
compared to that of a family -- striving for a common
goal in concert with all members for a better future.
-– Kofi
Annan
The
future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all
the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance,
security, equality and justice. That foundation is
the family. It is only by protecting families, from
famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can
prosper and contribute to the family of nations that
is the United Nations.
-– Kofi
Annan
We
must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock
of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in
war.
-- Kofi Annan
The
ways in which families are formed, function and evolve
vary greatly from country to country, as do perceptions
of the family's role in society. But in any culture,
the family provides the natural framework in which
individuals -- especially children - receive the emotional,
financial and material support indispensable to their
development. It is within the family that children
learn the values that will guide them for the rest
of their lives. It is within the family that they
form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate
with others and interact with the world around them.
It is within the family that the notion of human rights
becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance,
respect and equity permeate family life, they will
translate into values that shape societies, nations
and the world.
-– Kofi
Annan
the
happiness of any society begins with the well being
of the families that live in it.
-– Kofi
Annan
The
bond that links your true family is not one of blood,
but of respect and joy in each other's life.
-- Richard Bach
The
family. We were a strange little band of characters
trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste,
coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing
money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting
pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving,
laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the
common thread that bound us all together.
--Erma Bombeck
When
you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are
family happinesses.
~ Joyce Brothers
You
would think that those who are always talking about
family values would want to create an environment
of permanent relationships for people of the same
sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're
advocating their values.
- Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco
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
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"In
family life, love is the oil that eases friction,
the cement that binds closer together, and the music
that brings harmony."
-- Eva Burrows
Family
is the first social unit for developing the qualities
of the heart. A true family grows and moves through
life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a
biological family or an extended family of people
attracted to each other based on heart resonance and
mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth,
a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured.
Family values represent the core values and guidelines
that parents and family members hold in high regard
for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings
are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true
family values. While we have differences, we remain
"family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family
provides necessary security and support, and acts
as a buffer against external problems. A family made
up of secure people generates a magnetic power that
can get things done. They are the hope for real security
in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
To
understand your parents' love, you must raise children
yourself.
-- Chinese proverb
To
put the world right in order, we must first put the
nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must
first put the family in order; to put the family in
order, we must first cultivate our personal life;
we must first set our hearts right.
-- Confucius
"A
man should never neglect his family for business."
-- Walt Disney
No
success in public life can compensate for failure
in the home.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
The
family is the nucleus of civilization.
-- Ariel and Will Durant
Family
is not an important thing, it's everything.
-- Michael J. Fox
To
nourish children and raise them against odds is in
any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts
in cars or design nuclear weapons.
-- Marilyn French
Families
are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-- Matt Groening
The
best inheritance a parent can give to his children
is a few minutes of their time each day."
-- M. Grundler
If
we are too busy, if we are carried away every
day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving,
how can we have the time to stop and look deeply
into the situation-our own situation, the situation
of our beloved one, the situation of our family
and of our community, and the situation of our
nation and of the other nations?
-- Thich
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Call
it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call
it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are,
you need one.
-- Jane Howard (1935-1996) US journalist, writer
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity,
if you can't look back on having given love and attention
to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
-- Lee Iacocca
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The
happiest moments of my life have been the
few which I have passed at home in the bosom
of my family. ~Thomas
Jefferson
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The
happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon
of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that
which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
~Thomas
Jefferson, 1813
The
family is the corner stone of our society. More than
any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes,
the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when
the family collapses it is the children that are usually
damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community
itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen
the family, to create conditions under which most
parents will stay together, all the rest — schools,
playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern
— will never be enough.
-- Lyndon Johnson
The
goals of our public welfare program must be
positive and constructive. [The welfare program]
must stress the integrity and preservation of
the family unit. It must contribute to the attack
on dependency, juvenile delinquency, family
breakdown, illegitimacy, ill health, and disability.
It must reduce the incidence of these problems,
prevent their occurrence and recurrence, and
strengthen and protect the vulnerable in a highly
competitive world.
-- John
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Becoming
responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether
children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels
in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves
and others -- and whether they see everyday chores
as related to how we treat this planet.
-- Eda Leshan
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Nobody
has ever before asked the nuclear family to
live all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support, we've put it
in an impossible situation.
-- Margaret
Mead
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"It
takes ONE FAMILY to make a difference in this COMMUNITY.
It takes ONE PERSON to make a difference in this FAMILY."
-- Nisandeh Neta,
Family
is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your
nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they
just are.
~Marsha Norman
"The
family unit plays a critical role in our society and
in the training of the generation to come."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
We
are one big family of people, trying to make our way
through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected
to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate
source of love is possible through discovering the
hidden power in your heart.
-- Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
Family
isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you
care about.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee
Wee, 1998
Our
most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.
Most of us would give our own life for the survival
of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too
often as if we take our family for granted.
~Paul Pearshall
Your
family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.
Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly
to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn
Feelings
of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where
individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are
tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible
-- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing
family.
-- Virginia Satir
American
families have always shown remarkable resiliency,
or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social
challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity
of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind,
the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation
of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream
carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths
of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience
is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but
by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these
family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.
-- Ben Silliman
However
sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism
must start with a belief in some group's greater
right to power, whether that right is justified
by sex, race, class, religion, or all four.
However far it may expand, the progression inevitably
rests on unequal power and airtight roles within
the family.
-- Gloria
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"The
whole world is one family."
-- Sun Yat-sen
"A
family is a place where principles are hammered and
honed on the anvil of everyday living."
-- Charles Swindoll
You
don't choose your family. They are God's gift
to you, as you are to them.
~Desmond
Tutu |
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Acting
is just a way of making a living; the family is life.
-- Denzel Washington
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