Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."

- Sandra Day O'Connor

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

- Ellen Goodman

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others."

- Pope John Paul II

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

- Theodore Hesburgh

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

- John Locke

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence"

- Smiley Blanton

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

- Lee Iacocca

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters."

- Michelle Obama

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."

- Maureen O'Hara

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

- Barbara Bush

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."

- Theodore Bikel

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."

- Richard Branson

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

- Anne Frank

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

- Pope John Paul II

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."

- Bob Geldof

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know."

- Dwight L. Moody

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

- Billy Graham

Becoming a Family

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children."

- Margaret Mead