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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith. -- Ja Rule
You underestimate us, Josephine," Taylor smiled"A few guards, chains, and a locked door can't keep a family apart. -- Maya Bode
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that's what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart. -- Susane Colasanti
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. -- Maajid Nawaz
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family. -- Gail Porter
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. -- Justin Trudeau
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. -- Sam Shepard
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Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. -- Greg Walden
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it. -- Walter Dean Myers
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. -- Lisa Bonet
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose. -- Charles Stanley
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep? -- Walter F. Mondale
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. -- Mark Pryor
I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world. -- Stanley R. Jaffe
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. -- Maajid Nawaz
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II. -- Herb Kelleher
During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast. -- Christian Louboutin
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. -- Junot Diaz
The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back. -- Jools Holland
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves. -- Jack Handey
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family. -- Milton Jones
There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family. -- Sally Mann
My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart. -- Terry Tempest Williams
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. -- Jodi Picoult
...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because you're stronger together than you are apart. -- Antony John
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality. -- Ali Sina

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