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The
family is the school of duties - founded on love
-- Felix Adler |
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ideal of "a family" is one of the most basic models of what a better world can
be like. In a perfect family, the members are joined by bonds of love; they help
each other meet all of their physical and emotional needs. Of course no family
is perfect, but a family that strives together to become a "family for a better
world" can help each member to feel more fulfilled and better about themselves
and the world. They also provide a real-life example of how the human family can
work together to create a better world.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
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If
tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values
that shape societies, nations and the world.
- Kofi
Annan "Poverty
devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political
unrest and fuels conflict."
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Kofi Annan |
let us all reaffirm
our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.
- Kofi Annan
The
global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a
family -- striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better
future.
- Kofi Annan
The future of
peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation
of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It
is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that
they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.
- Kofi Annan
We
must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere,
in peace as well as in war.
-- Kofi Annan
The
ways in which families are formed, function and evolve vary greatly from country
to country, as do perceptions of the family's role in society. But in any culture,
the family provides the natural framework in which individuals -- especially children
- receive the emotional, financial and material support indispensable to their
development. It is within the family that children learn the values that will
guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form
their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with
the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights
becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate
family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and
the world.
- Kofi Annan
the happiness
of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
- Kofi Annan
"Peace
in society depends upon peace in the family."
-- Augustine
The
bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life.
-- Richard Bach
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
-- Henry Ward Beecher |
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Peace is the beauty
of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the
joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the
victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more
and more.
-- Menachem
Begin |  |
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Most
families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair
pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
-- Joan Blades
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The family. We
were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases
and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money,
locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in
the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common
thread that bound us all together.
--Erma Bombeck
When
you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
~
Joyce Brothers
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You would think that those
who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment
of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating
family values. They're advocating their values.
- Willie
Brown |
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More
than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic,
and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities,
and countries.
-- Gro
Brundtland |  |
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The
lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to
their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and
mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a
child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety
in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which
he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
~ Pearl S. Buck |
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"In family
life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together,
and the music that brings harmony."
-- Eva Burrows
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There
is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Family is the first
social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and
moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family
or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance
and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings
of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines
that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the
family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for
true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of
our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts
as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates
a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security
in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
To
understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.
-- Chinese
proverb
To put
the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation
in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we
must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
-- Confucius
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We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the
suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends,
our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding,
more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all
faiths and cultures.
-- John
Conyers |  |
Global Family Day
provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help
to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember
that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.
-- John
Conyers
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I
draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The
achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They
mean nothing.
--
Sheryl Crow
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What
else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families,
in our work, in all our relationships?
-- Dorothy Day
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"The
greatest gift we can give to our children is to raise them in a culture of peace."
-- Louise
Diamond |
"A man should never
neglect his family for business."
-- Walt Disney
No
success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
-- Benjamin
Disraeli
The family
is the nucleus of civilization.
-- Ariel and Will Durant
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If you as parents cut corners,
your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money
on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,
and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial
and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have
not had the courage to snuff out.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman |
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