Families Quotes

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
Haley Barbour

Hurt, Job, Small

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.
Mark Dayton

Family, Friendly, Working

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
George G. Simpson

Family, Knows, Known

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.
John Baldacci

Respect, Young, Able

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
Erskine Bowles

Best, Positive, Two

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Mortimer Zuckerman

Home, Reality, Dream

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.
Robert Irvine

Food, Children, Parents

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
John Warner

Power, Made, Support

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
John Warner

War, Freedom, Lost

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
Ahmet Davutoglu

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
Patricia Schroeder

Education, American, College

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
Adepero Oduye

Black, Friends, White

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
Bonnie Hunt

Life, Great, Home

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.
Cokie Roberts

Time, Women, Truth

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
Lisa Whelchel

Different, Unique, Reasons

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
Carl Paladino

Respect, Parents, Two

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well.
Andrew P. Harris

Health, Care, Job

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
Dudley North

Rich, Become, Nations

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
Ernie Hudson

Wife, Children, After

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.
Richard Burr

Priority, Benefit, Increase

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
Christine O'Donnell

Freedom, Nothing, Lie

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
Andrew Gross

Crisis, Writing, Kids

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
Ken Curtis

Good, Together, Put

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
Sonia Johnson

Marriage, Pretty, Dangerous

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
Victoria Gotti

Family, Early, Realized

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
Sean Duffy

Same, American, Washington

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
Walter Lord

Talking, Interested, Couple

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

Sense, Heritage, Royal

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
Jeff Raikes

Business, Future, Medical

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Gary Becker

Family, Past, Changes

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