My mom was probably the biggest influence. She cooked dinner every night. We sat around the table every night. It was a… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We need a nation where traditional family values will get a national platform. — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We have a non-traditional family, and if it makes people uncomfortable, it's a shame that they are not more open. — Debbie Rowe Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family,… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family… — Carole M. Stephens Copy Share Image
If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers,… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
“Over and over these organizations tell America that family, above all, is what Christianity is about. Devotion to one's family is, indeed,… — Bruce Bawer Copy Share Image
“We are a traditional family in many ways,” she replied enigmatically, avoiding a lie. She wasn’t above lying to serve her mission,… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“the religious right similarly failed to address the root causes of societal decline: “Adherents of the new religious right correctly reject the… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
“The accusation against the Church for being either right or left wing tells you more about the contemporary political assumptions than about… — Austen Ivereigh Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always ask me, 'What… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Me, as a woman of the trans experience, I'm not able to have children biologically. And I have always been someone who… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values,… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Not having children does not, as we childless people are often made to feel, render our lives less marked by love. How… — Shon Faye Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
