Agitation Quote by Margaret Oliphant

The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain…

— Marvin J. Ashton

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet…

— Charles Dickens

“Family bonding is unbreakable and every-now and then, one needs to be part of the happy family atmosphere.”

— Raj Doctor

Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and…

— Martyn

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on…

— Charles Buxton

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture…

— Jodi Picoult

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and opposeone another. It didn't always come together easily nor doesit…

— Marge Kennedy

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that…

— Pope John Paul II

“unavoidable repetition of “family life” (with intergenerational conflicts, sibling rivalry, “primal scene” material, etc.)”

— Otto F. Kernberg

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

— Billy Graham

The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

— Robert Neelly Bellah