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

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.

I really like reading about how families work together.

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 think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

We're just like a regular family.

My mom was probably the biggest influence. She cooked dinner every night. We sat around the table every night. It was a very traditional family.

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

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

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.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

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.

I remember getting a toilet in our house. I remember sharing a bedroom with my sister, and my little sister was sleeping in my mom and dad's room.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.