Dan T. Cathy Quotes

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

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 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.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

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.

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

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

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

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

I mean, families are weird.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.