Families
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we’re not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Budget, Families, Famous, Impact, People
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Crimes, Education, Families, Famous, Incarceration
The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago will welcome people from across the nation to an unforgettable event highlighting our party’s vision for lifting up working families and those who too often have been left out and left behind.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Chicago, Development, Event, Families, Famous, Highlight, People, Politics, Unforgetable, Uplifts
Not mamy of our old families can boast that a Savile Row tailor calls four times a year at their country estates to measure the scarecrows in the fields for new suits.
Author: J. B. MortonTopics: Families, Famous, Fields, Humor, Measure, Scarecrows
Mexico is a Latin powerhouse. And Mexicans, they’re known as hard workers. Here in the U.S., not everybody wants to do those kinds of jobs. I’ve lived. I know what it feels like and what they go through and how families suffer.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Families, Famous, Hard, Latinos, Mexicans, Mexico, Struggle, Suffer
I simply fail to see how the act of legally formalizing a human relationship necessitates friends, family and co-workers upgrading the contents of their kitchen for them.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Act, Fail, Families, Famous, Friends, Human, Relationship
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Experiences, Families, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
But it was a moral issue, too, and a number of Northern women felt they had an obligation to fight an institution that broke up families and subjected young women to sexual molestation. Abolition of slavery was different from other reform movements, partly because it drew women so clearly into politics, and partly because it drew them so near to genuine violence.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Families, Famous, Fighting, Institutions, Issues, Molestation, Obligations, Sexual, Women
If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Christmas, Country, Families, Famous, God, Want
We have this beautiful tradition at Bayern that we all get together with our families after the game in a room and celebrate the wins. That is why it hurts a lot more when we lose.
Author: Thiago AlcantaraTopics: Experiences, Families, Famous, Feelings, Hurt, Lose, Together, Traditions, Win
We work with broken families and broken people who’ve lost hope and are helpless.
Author: Kailash Satyarthi
Topics: Broken, Families, Famous, Helpless, Hope, Lost, Work
In Yorkshire there is only the impetus of decline; the farms, the woolen mills, the dairy rounds wither, unravel and turn sour. The family wears out, stumbles politely, tripping over drink and ennui and a genteel surrender to the momentum of underachievement.
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Drink, Drinking, Drinking career, Familiar things, Families, Family, Leadership, Leads, Surrendered, Surround, Times, Times of difficulty
I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn’t a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.
Author: Gabriel MannTopics: Families, Famous, Grew Up, House, Mean
Everyone has hiccups in their families.
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: Everyone, Families, Famous, Hiccups
But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Destroy, Families, Famous, Friends, Separate
Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.
Author: Robert Baden-PowellTopics: Country, Families, Famous, Good, Necessary
That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose. We have no families, no children, no houses. Woz had an old car. I had a Volkswagen van, I mean, all we were going to lose is our cars and the shirts off our back.
Author: Steven Paul JobsTopics: Children, Families, Famous, Meaningful
Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Christ, Christian, Familiar things, Families, God, God willing
On the personal front, obviously, you know, this industry fragments a lot of families. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with my children, teaching them how to cook early on in life has brought them closer to my industry. So if they’re gonna follow it as a career, they know how to cook.
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Career, Children, Cook, Families, Famous, Follow, Fragments, Learned, Personal front
You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can’t build it with a hammer, he said.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Build, Building, Fame Obsession, Families, Famous, Hammer, Life, Meaningful, Relationship, Vulnerability
I’ve had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that ‘Dollhouse’ really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.
Author: Melanie MartinezTopics: Dollhouse, Families, Famous, Meaningful, People
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Encourage, Families, Famous, Glorious, Human, Maternity, Meaningful, Multiplication, Women
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars–all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, ‘sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose–there is no such war in the history of the race.‘
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Europe, Families, Famous, History, Meaningful
Our God-given right to protect our country, ourselves, and our families shouldn’t be up for debate.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: Country, Families, Famous, Meaningful, Ourselves
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Families, Famous, Individuals, Inspirational, Meaningful, Men, Society, Women
Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They’re coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you’re going to come here if you’re worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that’s what’s happening.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Country, Families, Famous
True friends are families which you can select.
Author: Audrey HepburnTopics: Families, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Selective Prioritization, Self, True
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Dreams, Families, Famous, Find, Hopes, Inspirational, Nations
Just because you’re a man doesn’t mean that you can’t raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don’t give up no matter what they say.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Families, Famous, Father, Kid, Man, Meaningful, Single
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they’d ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Families, Famous, Fantasy, Feelings, Fight, Life, Thoughts
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks
Author: Anais NinTopics: Create, Energy, Engages, Experiences, Families, Famous, Feelings, History, Hold, Home, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Experiences, Families, Famous, Feelings, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Succeed, Succeed Greatly, Supporters
I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Candidate, Experiences, Families, Famous, Frustration, Home, Meaningful, Mother, Positive, President
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Country, Families, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Religion
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Economy, Families, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Positive, Tax
We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Experiences, Families, Famous, Inspirational, Interest, Life, Meaningful
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Families, Famous, Immigrants, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Rewards
I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Children, Families, Famous, Friends, Impact, Meaningful, Positive, Thriving
In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Absence, Activities, Business, Environment, Families, Famous, Restriction
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Century, Families, Famous, Justice, Osama Bin Laden, Privileges, Production
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
Author: Terence McKennaTopics: Death, Die, Families, Family, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Purpose, Purposeful
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Emotion, Families, Famous, Unhappy
Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Families, Illusion, Imagination, Place, Unconditional Love, Value