Family Decline Quotes

#1. The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David Popenoe

#2. Oh, God, yes! You'd hate sharing a kitchen with me. I'm such a slut,' she said, almost proudly.

Barbara Pym

#3. I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.

Alain Ducasse

#4. You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

Confucius

#5. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, All His wonderful passion and purity. Oh, thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine, Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.

Barbara Hughes

#6. To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Erma Bombeck

#7. If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

N. T. Wright

#8. Entitlement breeds laziness, which in turn breeds decline. But of course with enough money, it is possible not to notice for decades that your family name is gathering dust.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#9. From a broader money view perspective, however, September 2008 was the moment when the Fed moved from lender of last resort to dealer of last resort, in effect taking the collapsing wholesale money market onto its own balance sheet. But in the heat of the moment, no one noticed.

Perry G. Mehrling

#10. She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.

Jennifer Clement

#11. Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#12. More to the point, I am fifty-eight. I need grandchildren before my decline. It's not right for two generations of the family to be drooling at the same time.

Tessa Dare

#13. You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

Patricia Briggs

#14. Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?

Laurent Blanc

#15. When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

Donald Miller