Family Quotes

"The family is the repository of cultural memory."

"The family is the enemy of total mobilization."

"The peer group has replaced the family as the primary socializing force."

"Family bonds shape who we become."

"The family remains a primary sphere for the construction of meaningful reality."

"The family is where meaning is most intimately created and maintained."

"The family remains the last refuge of meaning in an increasingly rationalized world."

"The family is the first school of the human heart."

"The family is the last bastion against the totalizing forces of culture."

"The family transmits not just genes but the entire inheritance of civilization."

"The family is the laboratory of virtue."

"The family provides the primary education in virtue or vice."

"The family is where we first learn who we are and who we might become."

"Socialization is the process by which we become human beings capable of participating in society."

"Childhood is the foundation upon which all later experience is built."

"The family is the primary agency of socialization and remains so throughout life."

"Childhood socialization is not preparation for life; it is the beginning of ongoing social construction."

"The family remains the primary locus of intimacy and authentic selfhood in modern life."

"Collect the memories of your mother."

"Family teaches us that we belong to something larger than ourselves."

"Family is where we first learn that love is unconditional."

"Family structures often reproduce the hierarchies and dominations of the larger social order."

"Family teaches us that we are bound to others before we know it."

"The family, like all institutions, is shaped by the economic system that contains it."

"Family bonds reveal to us our deepest patterns of being-with-others."

"The family reproduces the hierarchies of the larger society in miniature."

"Family is the first school of consciousness, where we learn to be in relation."

"It is a false dichotomy to say that a man must choose between his family and his career."

"The security of parents lies in the appreciation of their children."

"The family reproduces the authority structures necessary for the larger society to function."