Family Quote by Rose Macaulay

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal…

— Rose Macaulay

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing…

— Herbert Hoover

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

— Barbra Streisand

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

— Toyohiko Kagawa

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

— Henry B. Eyring

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

— Isadora Duncan

If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.

— Tony Evans

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

— Walter Lippmann

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

— Lawrence Fagg

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

— M. Russell Ballard