Quotes About Families

That's me being magnanimous in victory. Normally I kill them, kill their families, and piss on their ancestors' graves.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

Families with nothing would sometimes sell their toddlers to indenture schools, where managers trained them to be submissive just like they were programming a bot. At least bots could earn their way out of ownership after a while, be upgraded, and go fully autonomous. Humans might earn their way out, but there was no autonomy key that could undo a childhood like that.

Quintiles, since they're based on families and households, hide what's been happening between the genders. During the Golden Age, men of all colors did better than women of all colors; since 1973, however, the tables have turned, and men's wages have fallen while women's have risen—and white men, on average, have done worst of all.

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

The fact that women work is no reason to suppose that they have altered their personalities. From an evolutionary point of view, the oddity is that there have been historical periods when women did not work. Without the calories that women provided through gathering tubers, vegetables, and honey, families would have starved. What marks our present-day environment as special is not the fact of women working but of women having to leave their children in order to do so.