Families Quotes · Page 24

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

— William J. Clinton

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

— Marion Jones

Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

— Jan Schakowsky

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

— Mehmet Oz

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to…

— Barbara Mikulski

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

— Barbara Mikulski

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from…

— Adam McKay

There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take…

— Marco Rubio

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if…

— Jodi Picoult

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I was on 'Lost,' I used to have families who would come up to me, and they would push their little…

— Evangeline Lilly

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which…

— Sandra Fluke

“Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you…

— Jodi Picoult

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring…

— Jennifer Lee

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-…

— Anne Lamott

We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's best for ourselves, and there's a certain sort…

— Sterling K. Brown

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

In military families, the service member is frequently the breadwinner. Constant moves make steady employment a challenge for non-military spouses.

— Brianna Keilar

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

— Leonard Boswell

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

— Lee Isaac Chung

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Parents and families know best, and they should be in control of their individual child's education.

— Katie Britt

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

— Sheri L. Dew

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it,…

— Ron Howard

There are no 'Leave It to Beaver' families. Everybody's family's got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you're…

— Eddie Griffin

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

— Martin O'Malley

“Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

— Richard Schiff

It's amazing to see how COVID has actually brought many families together. And while we are not physically together, thanks to technology,…

— Ant Anstead

People get into metal and they don't drift away from it. They might have families and move away a little, but they…

— Steve Harris

We spoke at endless cabinet meetings about the need to stop the flow of money to the families of terrorists and to…

— Ayelet Shaked

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

— Tony Evans

Adoption saves lives, provides kids with safe and permanent homes and makes families whole.

— Jon Husted

Everyone should know who really respects marriage - and who stands 'in cahoots' with the people legislating against queer families.

— Jonathan Capehart

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

— Warren Farrell

COVID has been devastating on multiple levels, but we don't have to let it be a long-term tragedy for our families.

— Leslyn Lewis

I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

— Elise Stefanik

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pele revolutionized football. Pele stopped a war. Pele united countries, united families.

— Cafu