Family Quotes

"The greatest gift we can give our children is a world that respects their dignity and potential."

"Family is the first school where we learn about love and responsibility."

"We must teach our children not just to survive, but to thrive with dignity"

"Children inherit not just our possessions but our moral failures and triumphs."

"I would not be who I am if it were not for the remarkable women in my life."

"My mother always told me to be brave and to never give up."

"I am still married to Thea in my heart."

"Our relationship was built on decades of love."

"We must teach our children that peace is possible because we have lived it."

"Our children need us to be examples of peace, not just teachers of it."

"Without marriage, there would be no family in the usual sense."

"Many same-sex couples provide loving and nurturing homes to their children."

"For same-sex couples, the inability to marry has meant that their families are blessed through no state action."

"Same-sex couples, too, may aspire to these ideals and their families, including children, may have their families placed on a stable legal footing."

"Family is where we first learn to respect human dignity."

"The family unit can be both a source of love and a tool of control. Context matters."

"Family bonds can be both nurturing and suffocating depending on their nature."

"We realize the importance of our mothers when we are dying."

"My father always said, 'Malala will be known in the whole world.' I did not know how true that would be."

"Family bonds should be ties of choice, not chains of obligation."

"The most powerful movements start with mothers protecting their children."

"Children learn what they live. Show them peace."

"Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives. And if we don't help them to grow with the values we really believe in, we are going to be very disappointed."

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

"To nurture the next generation is to invest in the future of justice."

"Marriage has long been a keystone of the Nation's social order."

"Marriage is the foundation upon which the familial relation is built in our society."

"We are different so that we may come to know and love one another."

"My mother always said that women have to be twice as good to be considered half as equal."

"Family systems often perpetuate the very oppression I fight against."