Pope Francis Quotes

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

I was raised by the Indian community, and those families are still very close to us. We used to go to each others' houses one Sunday a month, so we got to know everyone well. Also, we love Indian food and can't get enough of it.

I'm a chava, a young one.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

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.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

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.