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True friends are families which you can select. — Audrey Hepburn

He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison.
And with pigeons. — Julia Quinn

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. — Benjamin Todd Jealous

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter — Joseph Addison

Autism is not a death sentence but a rich fulfilled life sentence so to speak. — Janet Walmsley

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game. — Tony Dungy

My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together. — Jennie Garth

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for. — Brian Schweitzer

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. — Eric Alterman

They're our families, but they're not us. Whatever hitches they carry in their steps does not cripple you or me. — Sharon Sala

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. — Stefan Molyneux

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits. — Hampton Sides

Families are incubators for citizen activists. — Ralph Nader

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. — Arundhati Roy

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

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families. — Kevin McCarthy

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal. — Carnie Wilson

Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. — Herman Koch

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families. — Ja Rule

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. — Bernie Sanders

We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them. — Jay Crownover

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. — Sinead O'Connor

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

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day. — Jim Gerlach

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins. — David W. Earle

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. — George Henry Lewes

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. — Matt Groening

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families. — Elizabeth Emken

When it comes to dysfunctional families," he said,"I'll put mine up against anyone's, anytime — Jayne Castle

No. We are our families. Both of us. We are the baggage twins. That much, I get. — Gwenda Bond

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

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them. — Kevin Kwan

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal." — Henri Nouwen

Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East. — Tom Robbins

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues. — Kevin O'Leary

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. — John Bradshaw

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them. — Andrew Solomon

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. — Dan O'Neill

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour. — John Angell James

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. — Donna K. Childree

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough. — Ann Richards

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work. — William J. Clinton

I don't believe in happy families. — Pat Conroy

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. — Jean Illsley Clarke

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations. — Al Gore

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families. — Sanford Bishop

We cannot be held responsible for what our families do, especially when we have no way to control them. — Robin LaFevers

Men without jobs do not form families. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals. — Susan Scott

Families are so beautiful. Wherever we may be, looking at kids and happy families make us feel like home. — Avijeet Das

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities. — Christine Gregoire

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. — Charles Wheelan

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog. — Jerome K. Jerome

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. — Richard Pombo

If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves — Adam Kahane

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money. — JJ Feild

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. — Sherrod Brown

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without — Henry James

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure. — Aunjanue Ellis

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It's not the end of the world. — Diane Samuels

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families — Carl Whitaker

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family. — CeCe Winans

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly — Pope Francis

In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth. — Cheryl A. Esplin

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. — Ezra Taft Benson

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats. — Rick Perry

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. — Barbara Mikulski

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow

Donald Trump is a leader. He produces results and is ready to get tough in order to protect American jobs and families. — Joe Arpaio

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family. — Heinrich Boll

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

Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. — Matthew Desmond

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television. — Steve Schirripa

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time. — George Tillman Jr.

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. — Chanakya

There are secrets in all families. — Jane Austen

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. — Clayton Christensen

Sometimes the families people choose work better than those they were born into. — Lisa M. Lilly

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later. — Chang-rae Lee

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families. — Elizabeth Warren

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit. — Tom Udall

But prominent families, often forget a simple truth, I've found.
Knowledge is power. — George R R Martin

My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. — Charles Bass

I really like reading about how families work together. — Sara Shepard

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. — Lyndon B. Johnson

When you wear a mask, you are not real. — David W. Earle

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life. — Jimmy Carter

Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. — Diane Setterfield

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. — Carolyn McCarthy

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning

I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win. — Ann McLane Kuster

If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life. — Billy Graham