Families Quotes · Page 16

“Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.”

— Diane Setterfield

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom…

— Matthew Desmond

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they…

— Pope Francis

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

— Vinnie Jones

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

— Óscar Arias

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

— Douglas Coupland

There's families all across the country that miss people, but there's nothing like military families.

— Cole Swindell

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

— Josh Klinghoffer

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring…

— Hans Blix

I feel like we bring in a lot of money to the universities. We put in a lot of work. Some guys…

— Kyler Murray

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in…

— Andre Gide

“Our families define us, sometimes in ways we cannot help or even know. I’m certain there are things about you that have…

— Jacqueline Davis

I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not…

— Barry Larkin

I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what…

— Hilda Solis

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like…

— Gary Bauer

Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a…

— Roma Downey

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they…

— Douglas Coupland

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

— Gloria Steinem

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been…

— Amber Rudd

As businesses, as communities, as families, and friends, we need to go forward remembering that we're all connected in one way or…

— Doug McMillon

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to…

— Bill O'Reilly

There's always going to be those families or even just individuals who can be quite defensive.

— Jo Frost

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

As a congressman, I am focused on being a good steward of our natural resources while rolling back regulations that suffocate hardworking…

— John E. James

Keeping American communities and families safe starts with empowering the Department of Homeland Security to keep criminals off of our streets.

— Katie Britt

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may…

— Nancy Gibbs

One of the most important things in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities

— Ritu Ghatourey

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

— Jane Fallon

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or…

— Neal Shusterman

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

— John Boyega

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

— John Kasich

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every…

— Steve Scalise

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

— Gary Yourofsky

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

I don't count no one else's money. I want everyone to be taken care of and be able to take care of…

— Kyle Lowry

Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

— Tony Parsons

Community colleges are in every district in this state, they serve Republican and Democratic families and non-partisan and non-political families as well.

— Gretchen Whitmer