Quotes About Broken

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The little broken doll was no more.

Love is a powerful device that builds the broken bridges.

Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I. But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight, And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart— Open to me! For I will show you the places Nobody knows, And, if you like, The perfect places of Sleep.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

It seemed to him that something which had always contained and confined him was broken, that he was loosed from it for ever; but whether he came forth into freedom or exile was something he could not determine.

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

Then, slowly, very slowly, one of the two struggled from the unloving embrace and got, swaying and staggering and bleeding, to its feet. The other lay in a bloody torn huddle on the stony ground, its neck broken.

Money sure does fix things, doesn't it? Except for things that can't be fixed. Like broken hearts.

I can't go on like this

If anything, I was proud of it. I had endured I told myself. I was so strong. But this is not strength. It is only endurance. A kind of emotional or therapeutic anorexia. I was not strong. Or if I was, it was the adrenaline of the wounded. I was really only broken, moving through the landscape as if I were not, and taking all my pride in believing I was passing as whole.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.