Tyler Perry Quotes

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

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.

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

I'm very traditional. I want to have kids. I want to be - not a stay-at-home mom, but to be able to take care of my kids and have a family and cook. A white picket fence and a dog.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

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.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

If the family is the basis of the society, and the basis of the family is the division of labor between husband and wife, and the upbringing of children is the most important function of the family, then such a society is indeed civilized ...

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

We're just like a regular family.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

Strong families are vital to strong societies.

Society wants happy families.

A family with two kids and a dog, however cheesy it might sound, that's what I want.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.