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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. -- Diane Abbott
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care -- Pope Francis
Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too. -- Evan Bayh
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. -- Leigh Anne Tuohy
Families ought to be noisy. -- Benjamin Franklin
Families, like individuals, are unique. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Families without songs are unhappy families. -- Pat Conroy
Families are incubators for citizen activists. -- Ralph Nader
Families that feel together, heal together. -- Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.
Families are the treasure of heaven. -- Neil L. Andersen
Families are the bedrock of our society. -- Hillary Clinton
Families are the compass that guide us. -- Brad Henry
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. -- Matt Groening
Families are always rising and falling in America. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. -- Ann Oakley
Families, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em .. -- Tate Hallaway
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. -- Florence King
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands. -- Brenda Ueland
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. -- Brenda Ueland
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005. -- Christine Pelosi
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly. -- Drew Barrymore
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have. -- Antony Starr
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. -- George W. Bush
Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry. -- Lou Reed
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. -- E. W. Howe
Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. -- Achille Maramotti
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness -- Andre Gide
Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it -- Mary Schmich
Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods. -- Lisa Whelchel
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. -- Cotton Mather
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss. -- Mason Cooley
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with. -- Roger Ebert
Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life. -- Mike Berenstain
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat. -- Brady Udall
Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.. -- Julie B. Beck
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do. -- Robert Frost
Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal. -- Mary Blakely
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness. -- Stephen Fry
Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear. -- Barack Obama
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief. -- Stevie Wonder
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. -- Dylan Thomas
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. -- Tony Tan
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. -- Jessica Lange
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. -- John Updike
I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families. -- Tyra Banks
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. -- Richard Schiff
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. -- Erma Bombeck
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation. -- Tamsin Greig
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- Leo Tolstoy
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow. -- Paula Fox
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success. -- Albio Sires
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. -- Barbara Mikulski
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. -- Jose Serrano
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. -- Timothy Noah
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. -- Dee Dee Myers
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. -- Ellen Tauscher
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair. -- Jason Alexander
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. -- Gloria Steinem
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. -- Melissa Bean
Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique. -- Jeb Bush
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. -- Robert Fisk
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. -- Julian Castro
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families. -- Evan Bayh
The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. -- Elizabeth Warren
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. -- David Icke
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. -- Stephen Collins
I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. -- Jimmy Reid
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House. -- Sarah Palin
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. -- Charles Stanley
It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen. -- Nathan Eldon Tanner
I've got two families. -- Merle Haggard
Characteristics cling to families. -- Francis Galton
Entire families work for Xerox. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I like stories that affect families. -- Shepard Smith
I love books about dysfunctional families. -- Sara Shepard
Their families cordially detested one another. -- Terry Pratchett
I don't believe in happy families. -- Pat Conroy
I don't believe in happy families, -- Pat Conroy
There are secrets in all families. -- Jane Austen
Christmas is a time for families. -- Dorothy Koomson
Is there life in other families? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I've always been attracted to temporary families. -- Gus Van Sant
When families are strong, America is strong. -- Hillary Clinton
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. -- Gloria Steinem
Middle-class families know education begins at birth. -- Geoffrey Canada
Cop families have guns in their houses. -- Amy Carlson
I want to invest in hard-working families. -- Hillary Clinton
Our world needs good and strong families. -- Pope Francis
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families -- Charles Dickens
Men without jobs do not form families. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Everybody has some dysfunction in their families. -- Hillary Clinton
Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. -- Oliver Herford
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. -- John Dos Passos
Friendships come and go, but families are forever.... -- Kenny Rogers
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. -- Cynthia Heimel
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. -- Pat Conroy
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. -- Charles Dickens
Loving families value effort as much as success. -- Wes Fesler
Opposes compromise immigration bill- it tears apart families. -- Bill Richardson
Good families are generally worse than any others. -- Anthony Hope
True friends are families which you can select. -- Audrey Hepburn
The welfare state is an assault on families. -- Larry Elder
Writers will happen in the best of families. -- Rita Mae Brown
I wanted to help women and their families. -- Tory Burch
Middle income families with children are Australia's new poor -- Tony Abbott
I think all families are creepy in a way. -- Diane Arbus
My parents both came from very poor working-class families. -- George Michael
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. -- George Henry Lewes
The families of our friends are always a disappointment. -- Norman Douglas
This is the season for families. Hold yours close. -- Celine Dion
I really like reading about how families work together. -- Sara Shepard
We must make children and families a national priority. -- Robert Casey
... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere. -- Bel Kaufman
I write about families. That is who we are. -- Per Petterson

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