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"At the end of your life, the only thing meaningful you will leave behind will be your family - so work the hardest at making it a success."
-- Chris Widener, author and motivational speaker

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible --the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
-- Virginia Satir (1916-1988), American author and psychotherapist

"Men and women have an equal responsibility to restore the strength of the family, which is the foundation of all cultures."
-- Haida Gwaii Traditional Circle of Elders

"Despite all new inventions and modern designs, fads and fetishes, no one has yet invented, or will ever invent, a satisfying substitute for one's own family."
-- Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg in his book, The Road to Confidence

"Good homes are still the best source of good humans."
--Neal A. Maxwell (1926-2004)

"It is difficult to know what counts in the world. Most of us count credits, honor, dollars. But at the bulging center of mid-life, I am beginning to see that the things that really matter take place not in the boardrooms, but in the kitchens of the world.
-- Gary Allen Sledge, writer and senior editor for Readers Digest

"No other success in life can compensate for failure in the home."
-- David O. McKay (1873-1970)

Out of the dreariness,
Into its cheeriness,
Come we in weariness,
Home.
-- Stephen Chalmers, author

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe or call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
-- Jane Howard (1933-1966), American journalist and writer

"The heart is to the body, as the family is to the soul."
--Rick Beneteau, Pearls of Success

"A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams."
-- Unknown

"The home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out. [It is]... the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value. No gauge can measure its ultimate influence ... for good or ill. It is at home, among family members that we come to terms with circumstances. It is here life makes up its mind."
-- Chuck Swindoll (1934-), American author, educator, and radio preacher

"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."
-- Frederick W. Robertson (1816-1853), English reformer and minister

"Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life."
-- Martin Buxbaum (1912-1991), American author, photographer, artist and humorist

"I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to old and sacred values, it must begin in the home. It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured."
-- Gordon B. Hinckley (1910-2008), American church leader and elder statesman

"In every conceivable manner, the family is the link to our past, the bridge to our future."
-- Alex Haley (1921-1992), internationally acclaimed speaker, writer and author of Roots

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action."
-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997), world humanitarian and founder of the Missionaries of Charity

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
-- George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist

"Our families are the safety net that catches us when we fall. They are our sanctuary in a storm. They are the beacon showing us the way home when we're lost."
-- Linda Offenheiser

"So much of what is great has sprung from the closeness of family ties."
-- Sir Thomas M. Barrie (1860-1937), playwright and novelist

"'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,"
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home!"
-- John Howard Payne (1791-1852)