Quotes About Broken Homes

#1. We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

J. J. Field

#2. He said, I like girls from broken homes who are crazy about chocolate and who love the rain. I've been waiting for a girl like that for a long time.

Mian Mian

#3. We were the first latchkey-kid generation. Our parents believed in free love, and for many of us, that meant broken homes.

Gudjon Bergmann

#4. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

#5. In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

Iain Duncan Smith

#6. Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

Moshe Kasher

#7. People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

Gillian Flynn

#8. A culture of more ordered individualism was more valuable to people building from a foundation of stability than to those working to rise from entrenched disadvantage, or to overcome the burdens of broken homes and communities.

Yuval Levin

#9. I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.

Winona Ryder

#10. We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Rick Riordan

#11. Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

#12. If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works

Barack Obama

#13. You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Malcolm Bradbury

#14. I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Rita Mae Brown

#15. In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Cal Thomas

#16. Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#17. My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.

Pierre De Ronsard

#18. It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

Andy Taylor

#19. Khairey ba waley darta na kram Toora topaka woranawey wadan korona Guns of Darkness! Why would I not curse you? You turned love-filled homes into broken debris

Malala Yousafzai

#20. I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

Jason Alexander

#21. People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#22. Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

Iain Duncan Smith

#23. Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Jan C. Ting

#24. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter Sarsgaard

#25. What's poetry? I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Lauren Oliver

#26. A bus ride is like being in another world.

J.A. Redmerski

#27. The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Sam Keen

#28. I think it's designed to flower open like a Chocolate Orange."
Me and Lesley then had to explain Terry's Chocolate Orange to Nightingale.
"Not unlike a practitioner's hand opening to reveal a werelight," said Nightingale.
"Not unlike at all," I said. Yeah, exactly like that I thought.

Ben Aaronovitch

#29. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis

#30. Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Christopher Plummer

#31. I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Sarah Dessen

#32. After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

Graydon Carter

#33. My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Neon Hitch

#34. The skaven will not prevail! Here they will be broken, shattered upon our steel! They fight for domination, to sate their greed. We fight for our homes, for our families, for those we would keep safe from the horrors of Old Night. It is our cause that is just; it is our fight that is righteous!

C.L. Werner

#35. I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Stephen Merchant

#36. The day you start falling in love, with the wrecked homes and broken windows instead of running away from them. You will find a story that fills your soul, behind every burnt door.

Akshay Vasu

#37. Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don't realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart. And we're all broken, in one way or another.

Cassia Leo