- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
- Eroded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all such odd characters, even though we were a really functional family, in a way, as eccentric and crazy as we were. And it was such a wonderful feeling amongst us of being a family almost. We were 'The Addams Family!'
- Cartoons
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- Nov 07, 2020