Family Life Quotes - Page 3

• The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Secret, Tears

  Joyce Carol Oates (2013). “The Accursed: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Life, Country, Reality

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• We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

  David Cameron

  Life, Country, Years

  "David Cameron Manifesto Speech in Full". www.politics.co.uk. April 14, 2015.

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• Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Stars, Husband, Kennedy Family

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• Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Children, Real

  "Jeb Bush: 'I'm not in favor of shaming women'" by Betsy Klein, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Country, Children

  "Jeb Bush stands by opposition to same-sex marriage" by Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2015.

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• It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Worry, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Block, Destiny, Self

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child when they are a teenager or even in adolescence that this is going to go on forever and it doesn't. They get to their 20s, they change dramatically in their 20s. So sometimes it's just holding on for the ride, and just being there and holding on for the ride.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

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• Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.

  E. J. Dionne

  Hard Work, Generosity, Important

  E.J. Dionne (2013). “Why Americans Hate Politics”, p.554, Simon and Schuster

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• When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

  Jerry Reinsdorf

  Looks, Fit

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• All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Life Is, Organized

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• When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Blessed

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• What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, Wings, House

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• Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

  L. Neil Smith

  Groups, Sometimes, Individual

  "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. May 02, 2010.

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• Love your God and your family and you're making an eternal investment. Family life will continue in the New Heavens and the New Earth, but even the most amazing accomplishments on this earth will quickly fade. Genesis 5 teaches us to prioritize people over accomplishments.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Love You, People, Accomplishment

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dog, Years, Tea

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in "Harper's Magazine", February 2000.

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.

  Victoria Osteen

  Children, People, Easy

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

  Ben Marcus

  Parent, Balance, Example

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• Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

  May Sarton

  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

  Mehmet Oz

  Family, Kids, Doctors

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• My family lives a pretty normal life.

  Darius Rucker

  Normal, My Family, Normal Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

  Karl Evang

  Views, Environmental Factors, Firsts

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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