American Family Quotes - Page 3

• We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Dream, Badass, Issues

  "Women in the US Senate: a guide to the 20 female senators" by Emma G. Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

  E. B. White

  Adventure, Pajamas, Hours

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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

  Jim Cooper

  Emergencies, Medical, Financial

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• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Years, Two

  "A fine body of work". Interview with Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2001.

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

  Robert Wuthnow

  Hands, Class, Pressure

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

  Alice Sebold

  Comforting, Portraits, Remember

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• The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Husband, Home

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

  Mike Thompson

  War, Mean, Vote

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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• [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

  Alec Baldwin

  Night, Lawyer, Cry

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• Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

  John Boehner

  Marriage, Wedding, Believe

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• We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

  George H. W. Bush

  Trying, Keep Trying

  "In praise of ... The Simpsons". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2007.

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• The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

  Kim Harrison

  People, Car, Unhappy

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• I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Looks, Shows

  "'Breaking Bad' Q&A: Star Giancarlo Esposito Discusses the Season Finale". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2011.

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• When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

  Jonathan Franzen

  People, Way, Weirdness

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

  Sean Duffy

  Belts, Has Beens

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• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Christopher Bond

  Dream, Average, Generations

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• American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Kids, White

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• We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

  John Barrasso

  Jobs, Hard Work, People

  "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

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• We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

  Dick Armey

  Cutting, Levels, Today

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