Top 25 Extended Families Quotes
#1. Communism is what Karl Marx hoped could be an economic scheme for making industrialized nations take as good care of people, and especially of children and the old and disabled, as tribes and extended families used to do, before they were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. We are so lonely because we don't have enough friends and relatives. Human beings are supposed to live in stable, like-minded, extended families of fifty people or more.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
Richard Flanagan
#4. Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys
Michael Gurian
#5. Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel
#6. Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn
#7. It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
Agnes Varda
#8. My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts to as we journey through life.
Jane Seymour
#9. But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun ... It is our sacred duty to care for our families, including our extended families.
Thomas S. Monson
#11. There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
Annalee Newitz
#12. Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
Denis Leary
#13. The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.
Mark Zandi
#14. We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.
Erica Jong
#16. I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
Laura Prepon
#17. I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.
Lydia Millet
#19. Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.
Aleqa Hammond
#20. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'
Kathleen Madigan
#23. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
Jemima Khan
#24. You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
Walt Disney Company
#25. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
