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Quotes About Dependents

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
~ Hamza Yusuf
When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get head-aches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
~ Robert Brault
If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.
~ Suze Orman
I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.
~ Tracy Morgan
Rather than a purely economic system supplying "goods and services," capital acquired political attributes. Faced with that reality, the magic realists, in desperation, would introduce their trump card, the threat of revolution. This meant arousing the dependents, organizing their numbers, and confronting the realists with their worst nightmare—instability, uncertainty, and, worst of all, the subordination of economic to demotic power
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would 'perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents'. The organisation's international arm was headquartered in the offices of the British Eugenics Society as late as 1952.
~ Matt Ridley
The reluctance or frank refusal to have oneself or one's dependents vaccinated—euphemistically known as "vaccine hesitancy"—has been identified by the WHO (2019) as one of the top ten global health threats.
~ Steven Taylor
Shemyaza's caress effectively stemmed the argument around them. All eyes turned towards Shem with indignant surprise. There were times and places for dalliances with human dependents, and a meeting of the Parzupheim was not one of them.
~ Storm Constantine
Life insurance is meant to provide financial protection for those who are dependent on you at a point in your life when you have yet to build up other assets. Once you have accumulated assets that your dependents can fall back on—say, a sizable retirement fund or other significant investments—you no longer need life insurance.
~ Suze Orman
I look after two people - my wife and my son.
~ Michael Chandler
Young people shouldn't fall for it, since they normally don't have dependents who rely on them for support. Everyone should save and invest their money and not buy life insurance until the situation requires it.
~ Taylor Larimore
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
~ Robert Breault
When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.
~ Unknown
Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?
~ Hugh Nibley
This is the fate which awaits many of the middle class and the wage-class. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to serve notice on these thieves, and highway robbers, sitting in high places of "honor" and "trust," that by the eternal god of justice, and by the manhood in you, that you will not, in this land of plenty, allow your children to become the mere hirelings and dependents upon the sweet will of their children?
~ Unknown
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
~ Jack Benny
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
~ Jack Benny
Schools on military bases and public schools accepting the children of service members also desegregated. Many of these schools had no choice in the matter, since they were ordered by the Department of Defense to integrate or close down. The secretary of defense, Charles E. Wilson, ordered that all military base schools and all public schools attended by military dependents be integrated by September 1, 1955, or prepare to be sanctioned.46 These schools were not allowed to submit choice plans.
~ Unknown
Dependents display selective memory and selective attention. They commonly fail to set priorities effectively, often focusing on activities that have little long-term value, while ignoring those that will impact on their futures.
~ Unknown
If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
~ 1 Timothy 5:16