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Quotes About Families

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
~ Peggy Noonan
Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.
~ Emily Calandrelli
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
~ Ann Cotton
The city becomes a financial battery farm and the suburbs do the same for families.
~ Christopher Fowler
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
~ Christopher Hitchens
They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.
~ Christopher Paolini
Why do we live in Spooksville? It's not just because our families live here. It's because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I'm doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.
~ Christopher Pike
the "two hundred families" which ruled France had made up their minds that their interests required the overthrow of the Third Republic, and the establishment of some sort of dictatorship which would break the power of the labor unions, as had been so efficiently done in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Spain.
~ Upton Sinclair
This story is blowing up because of the racism of the white American community. Look to your own families, people, and don't throw stones.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
The gentleness, the sentimentality, of many Soviet troops toward small children in Prussia was noted at the time. A woman with a baby, local people learned, was practically immune to rape. But even sentimental troops, the men who kept their pockets full of sweets for hungry German kids, worried about their families back home. It was a long time since any had seen their children.
~ Catherine Merridale
It is the integrative synergy of the arts, based on cultural traditions and current trauma-informed practice, that is requisite to addressing traumatic stress with most children, adults, families, groups, and communities.
~ Cathy A. Malchiodi
Watts-English, Fortson, Gibler, Hooper, & DeBellis, 2006). Further compounding this limited verbal and conceptual ability is the observation that children from low verbal families develop language skills even more slowly (Hart & Risley, 2003). This results in protracted immature language usage, fewer words, shorter sentences, and the consideration of fewer details than children from high verbal families (Papalia & Olds, 1979).
~ Cathy A. Malchiodi
We're seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families' incomes are falling and girls' schooling is the first place they economize," she sighed. The
~ Geraldine Brooks
Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women's hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Instead, as is already happening to some degree, organized-crime families will turn toward legitimate operations.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
~ Gerry Adams
We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.
~ Gina Buonaguro
most politically powerful right-wing families have an almost perfect record of advocating numerous wars while ensuring that their own sons and daughters do not risk their lives to fight in them.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Taking proactive steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus in our communities is essential to protecting not only our families, but the many seniors, immunocompromised individuals, and other people with underlying health conditions who have a serious interest in avoiding exposure to the disease.
~ Abigail Spanberger
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families.
~ Tom Frieden
Wil Cardon understands what Arizona needs in Washington. He is committed to getting our economy back on track, upholding our country's rule of law, and looking out for Arizona families.
~ Trent Franks
Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.
~ Tom Perez
The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
~ Charles K. Kao