Rob Ford Quotes

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.

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?

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.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I come from a typical family.

We're just like a regular family.

There are five members in my family.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

I write about families. That is who we are.

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

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

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

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

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.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.

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

The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.