Quotes About Families

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving—Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

Add doom to the list, then. Especially in families, doom is "altogether common." Sorrow floats; love, too; and—in the long run—doom. It floats, too.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

Yoyo said to me recently, 'Love and pain, that's what families are, and they fit together like this'--he slotted the tips of our fingers together--'like cogs.' Then he smiled and put a hand on my swollen belly. 'And what makes these cogs turn is hope, of course.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago). I have helped thousands of families understand how their children's sleep habits directly impact behavior and school performance

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

There are secrets in all families, you know.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.