Broken Family Quotes

• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

  Toni Morrison

  Broken Heart, Running, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

  Lil' O

  Broken, Littles, My Family

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• I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

  Octavia Spencer

  Strong, Growing Up, Thinking

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• I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Broken, Causes

  Song: 16 on Death Row

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• When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

  Jim Costa

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  Mom, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Broken, Littles

  Song: 2Pac + Outlawz F Ta'He---Still I Rise

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• I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

  Dave Mustaine

  Dad, Father, School

  Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2011.

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• How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

  Tupac Shakur

  Broken, Smoking, Unanswered Questions

  Song: The Streetz R Deathrow, 1993

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• There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Relationship, Growing Up, Women

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

  Gary Bauer

  Broken, Soul, Suffering

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• If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Sex, Loneliness

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• The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.

  Marco Rubio

  Growing Up, Father, Struggle

  "All Eyez on Him". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. November 19, 2012.

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• So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Sweet, Easter, Children

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Divorce

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