The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. 623
There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. 908
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’. 2.15K
I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I’m just with the family because that’s real. 2.37K
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‘YesThe only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what., you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.’ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble. 1.35K
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. 664
It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. 729
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn’t have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. 678
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. 2.07K
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. 661
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. 726
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. 693
And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government. 682
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. 859
