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Quotes About Families

It's time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It's time to continue our nation's long commitment to supporting unemployed workers by extending emergency unemployment compensation.
~ Tom Perez
Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare - everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to working families, these are the issues they raise... We have over 43 million Americans who don't have a single day of sick leave, but everybody gets sick. Everybody's children get sick.
~ Valerie Jarrett
You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against human nature, not to have families there.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
I started with the job of sending migrants back home the day lockdown started, and I will not end this task till the last migrant reaches home. We are working day and night to reach out to everyone so that all of them can reunite with their families.
~ Sonu Sood
In a city where millions of people are drawn to Times Square, we need to push against the immorality that has taken root there once again so families can enjoy New York.
~ Ruben Diaz Sr.
I'm not really sure what defines 'success in the real world' to be honest! It's so objective once you graduate, some people work, some people start families, some go looking for themselves up mountains in Peru.
~ Zawe Ashton
It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.
~ Janina Gavankar
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
We're all making decisions to make ourselves happy and our families happy. That doesn't take away what we've done together and the special bond that we created and the special bond that we have and just all the memories that we had together. That will never change. As you move forward, you appreciate those moments and keep going forward.
~ Chris Bosh
The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.
~ Tommy Chong
'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
~ Mahesh Babu
To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.
~ Loretta Lynch
Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservations surrounded by the society that destroyed their civilization, and are still stigmatized. For decades and decades, for hundreds of years except in Indian schools, they weren't allowed to speak their language. That stigma takes a terrible toll.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
Few thought violent resistance was sensible; there was a broad nationwide fear of young men living in the woods, with neither jobs nor families, clamoring for guns and revenge. What reasonable person would support lawless adolescents with bombs?
~ Sarah Rose
It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.
~ Jeff Cohen
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
~ Bill Vaughan
This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie [The Big Short ].
~ Bun B
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
~ Tony Abbott
I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.
~ Mark Wahlberg
Palace Barracks, Holywood, a secure army base where British army families live during their tour of duty in the Province. The
~ Martin McGartland
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Once people came to believe that families should nurture children rather than exploit their labor, many began to feel that the legal consequences of illegitimacy for children were inhumane.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Up until 1950 most families' discretionary income did not cover much more than an occasional meal away from home; a beer or two after work; a weekly trip to the movies, amusement park, or beach; and perhaps a yearly vacation, usually spent at the home of relatives. Few households had washing machines and dryers. Refrigerators had only tiny spaces for freezing ice and had to be defrosted at least once a week. Few houses had separate bedrooms for all the children.
~ Stephanie Coontz
The great Sephardic families of New York, many of them descended from the St. Charles arrivals, include the Hendrickses, the Cardozos, the Baruchs, the Lazaruses, the Nathans, the Solises, the Gomezes, the Lopezes, the Lindos, the Lombrosos, and the Seixases.
~ Stephen Birmingham