“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.” FirstsHumansImportantCharacterHomeSchoolHuman BeingsMoralPrinciplesWorstTrainingEndureCeaseManhood Book:Character Source: Character
“It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.” ThinkingShouldHeartHomeBeliefMy OwnMoralSawsMankindArroganceInfallibleOmnipotence Author:John Buchan
“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.” PeopleMadeWholeUseHomeNightCommunityMoralPracticeGraceWorstTablesDinnerOpeningSundayTexasHouseholdAversionSupperDinner TableSunday NightOpening NightMoral Strength Author:Pauline Kael
“Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home... The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.” NeedsSoulHomeMoralShareFitCharacteristicsOur SocietyFreakConstraintsPirateHeterosexual Marriage Author:Kathy Acker
“These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” HomeValuesFatherMoralSawsTaughtKingsHonorAnd LoveNeighborMarchHeritageLutherAmerican ValuesGod And Love Author:Mitt Romney