Temple Family Homestead

Famous quotes containing the words temple, family and/or homestead:

    “And if blood of Martyrs is to flow on the steps
    We must first build the steps;
    And if the Temple is to be cast down
    We must first build the Temple.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

    “These Flemish pictures of old days;
    Sit with me by the homestead hearth,
    And stretch the hands of memory forth
    To warm them at the wood-fire’s blaze!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)