Broken Homes Quotes

• The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Way, Break

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Dec 01, 2016

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• Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

  Bella Pollen

  Home, Heart, Play

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Hunting Unicorns”, p.284, Pan Macmillan

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• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Armstrong Williams

  Education, Baby, Children

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• I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Mom, Home

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Children, Father

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• So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

  Judd Apatow

  Mother, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

  Peter De Vries

  Broken Heart, Home, Thinking

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Running, Pain, Home

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• Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Home, Broken, Raised

  Song: On Coming From a Broken Home, Album: I'm New Here, 2010

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• People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Home, People

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.27, Crown

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• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  Cal Thomas

  Character, Home, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Believe, Home

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• If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

  Barack Obama

  Healing, Home, School

  "Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.

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• For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.

  Michelle Alexander

  Children, Home, Cycling

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Broken Heart, Home, Thinking

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• This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

  Julian Barnes

  Home, Long, Broken

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• I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

  Len Goodman

  Home, Broken, Parent

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.

  Winona Ryder

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.

  Jason Peter

  Home, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

  Moshe Kasher

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Father, Home, Kids

  "X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Paul Lewis, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

  JJ Feild

  Home, People, Broken

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• I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Dad, Home, Years

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• Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

  Bucky Sinister

  Home, Broken, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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