Top 26 Greed Over Family Quotes
#1. The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn't have been accidental. It wasn't her niece's greed - the old woman had played a trick on them the whole time.
Colson Whitehead
#2. All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women!
Hiromu Arakawa
#3. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.
Arthur C. Clarke
#4. If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
Christine Delphy
#5. Mankind was always enslaved, they'll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable.
Pierce Brown
#6. I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.
Richard Wright
#7. I love that girl, Bertie," he went on, when he'd finished coughing.
"Yes. Nice girl, of course."
He eyed me with deep loathing.
"Don't speak of her in that horrible casual way. She's an angel. An angel!
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V.
It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.
Sharon M. Draper
#9. There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
Jodi Picoult
#10. I've never made fun of you. Making fun of you would imply that something about you is fun.
Abigail Roux
#12. I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.
Robyn
#13. The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
William J. Clinton
#14. I raised a brow. "So you do listen."
"When it involves your lips, you have my full attention.
Priscilla West
#15. I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
Ralph Waite
#16. Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.
Max Lucado
#17. So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?
Mary Lambert
#18. It was joy, joy, happy joy.
Happy, happy joy.
A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.
Robert Rankin
#19. Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
Philip Schuyler
#20. Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?
Eva Figes
#21. Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#22. In a city like San Francisco, you can throw a rock out your front door and hit someone with a nice ass and pretty brown eyes. But to find someone you want to fall asleep with, someone you want to breathe and dream next to, is terribly rare.
Christopher Baer Will
#23. Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.
Chris Howard
#24. Don't count your dollars to see how rich you are. Count your memories. Count your friends. Count the hugs you get every day. Count what really matters.
Toni Sorenson
#25. When you sacrifice everything for your family, and you're committed to changing your lifestyle to secure a better future, it is not an act of greed, but rather an act of faith.
Celso Cukierkorn
#26. I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.
Ken Untener
