David O. McKay Quotes

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make a difference in creating a sense of discipline, order and loving cooperation in the home.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

When we talk about something like student loans, what we should be talking about is the fact that every American wants their kids to do better than we have done. If we can get that, the other thing we'd really like is for our kids to be able to come home and raise their kids in the community where we raised them. What unites all of us, no matter where you live in the country, is we want our family to be safe, we want the next generation in our family to be more successful than us, and we would like our family to be close together.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.

I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true one to another? There is no simple answer. I acknowledge that. But it appears to me that there are some obvious reasons that account for a very high percentage of these problems. I say this out of experience in dealing with such tragedies. I find selfishness to be the root cause of most of it.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.