Quotes About Families

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

Although deer season doesn't start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat.

I didn't want to hear about people I loved playing Happy Families without me while I was thousands of miles away.

The most enjoyable element of Kentucky society, she observed, was the endless stories: the misfortunes of families, gossip about neighbors—every anecdote served up beautifully formed and with a punch-line that would leave the table rocking with laughter.

The people of Baileyville were descended from Celts, from Scots and Irish families, who could hold on to resentment until it was dried out like beef jerky, and bearing no resemblance to its original self.

Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Housing costs are also squeezing middle- and lower-income families. For the poorest third of households, housing expenses have increased more than 50 percent since the mid-1990s and for the middle third, about 25 percent.

Today, about a quarter of poor families with children are covered by TANF, for example, down from about 70 percent twenty years ago.

There has to be an easier way. That was the conviction that inspired Jon Schlossberg and Quinten Farmer to launch a technology company named Even whose mission is to help families deal with income spikes and dips.

But our data, along with other research, point to new ways of understanding saving among low- and moderate-income Americans. Many of these families are committed, effective savers; they're just not saving in the ways financial advisors might imagine. They put aside money for expenses they anticipate in the next few months, not the distant future.

The data tell a clear story: families leave poverty in great numbers, and they enter poverty in great numbers. Only a small share lives in poverty for long periods.

In 2006, political scientist Jacob Hacker described what he called the "Great Risk Shift" in a book by the same name. Over the half century following World War II, governments and businesses gradually shifted financial risks from their ledgers onto the shoulders of individuals and families.

Indeed, the instability of families' incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families' incomes.

la prigione viene a essere non l'abominio di desolazione delle famiglie, quanto invece il suo luogo naturale, solo allora lo spirito cristiano avrà ritrovato la sua primitiva dignità.

it is not easy to explain why the youngest survivors were the least likely to say that their families continued to enjoy positive relations with non-Jews after 1933.

Raising" children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play. Different cultures and different social classes favor different types of games, and various tribes and families favor different variations of these. That is the cultural significance of games.

Too many overweight teenage girls are being pressurised by their families to lose weight when what they in fact need is better nourishment (which would almost certainly help them lose weight along the way).

As a lifelong romance reader (who devours up to a book a day when my writing schedule permits!), my favorite romances have always been about families. I love following brothers and sisters and cousins from book to book, not only for the pleasure of watching them fall in love, but also to watch each of their love stories grow deeper and richer throughout the series.

Every copper knows that the funfairs of Great Britain are run by the Showmen, a collection of interwoven families so clannish they officially constitute a separate ethnic group of their own. Their family names were painted on the generator trucks and blazoned across the tops of hoardings.

But we were also Jewish, one of two Jewish families in our neighborhood, our complex, our compound, and the ovens had been active only fifteen years before.

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

I think people want immigration reform. I think people want to see a path for citizenship. I don't think we as a country want to discuss this in the way we do. I don't think we want to separate families. I don't think that's part of our values.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

I do think Hollywood is recognizing that there's a craving for it, that there's a huge audience in our country. They want movies that they can bring their families to. They want movies that are going to speak to their heart, in a way that's refreshing to their hearts. And Hollywood is learning that there's money to be made there.