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The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

Mike Rogers

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

James Hogg

Poet · Scottish

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Mark Poster

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.

Marge Kennedy

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Maria Shriver

Journalist · American · b. 1955

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Writer · American · 1844 – 1911

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

Dick Gephardt

Politician · American · b. 1941

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

Susan Collins

Politician · American · b. 1952

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

Achille Maramotti

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

Jennifer Dunn

Politician · American · b. 1941

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

Thomas Cochrane

Politician · English · 1775 – 1860

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Scientist · Pakistani · b. 1936

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Mack R. Douglas

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Ernst Engel

Economist · German · 1821 – 1896

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Hernando Cortes

Leader · Spanish

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

George Porter

Scientist · English · 1920 – 2002

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Judy Woodruff

Journalist · American · b. 1946

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T. E. Lawrence

d. 1935

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

Andrew Morton

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

Bernice Weissbourd

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Susan Lieberman

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

Andrew Morton

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

Thomas Howard

I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later.

Larry Brown

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

Leah Ward Sears

Judge · American · b. 1955

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway

Author · American · 1913 – 2005

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

Writer · Chilean · b. 1942

It should come as no surprise to any of us that the solution to ending bickering in families is to talk to one another more often without blaming, making judgments, or insulting one another.

Donald C. Medeiros

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

Andrew Morton

I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.

John Hawley

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

Christian Siriano

Designer · American · b. 1985

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Cameron Diaz

Actress · b. 1972

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Jessica Lange

Actress · American · b. 1949

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

James Levine

Musician · American · b. 1943

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

Mike Myers

Comedian · Canadian · b. 1963

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Orlando Bloom

Actor · English · b. 1977

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

George Carlin

Comedian · American · 1937 – 2008

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Theodore Bikel

Actor · Austrian · b. 1924

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

James Earl Jones

Actor · American · b. 1931

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Actor · American · 1879 – 1935

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

Tia Carrere

Actress · American · b. 1966

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Heston Blumenthal

Celebrity · English · b. 1966

And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.

Lynn Redgrave

Actress · British · 1943 – 2010

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Billy Joel

Musician · American · b. 1949

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Jacqueline Bisset

Actress · English · b. 1944

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