family Quotes

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.