Quotes About Coming From A Broken Home

#1. Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

Mariella Frostrup

#2. You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.

Rafe Esquith

#3. There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.

Jenny Offill

#4. Sophie would be the first to share his home. His life. Normalcy. As normal as two broken people could make it. Guilt nagged him that they were coming together on such odd terms. Sophie Menzies deserved far more. He was getting far more than he deserved.

Laura Frantz

#5. It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

Jim Carrey

#6. Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

Annie Proulx

#7. One man told me, 'My tooth is hurting'. Why would 'your' tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!

Dada Bhagwan

#8. This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Larry Bird

#9. I'm kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I'm like that, except with crying.

Nicola Yoon

#10. Philadelphia is just the tip of the Pittsburgh.

The Covert Comic

#11. Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?

Marquis De Sade

#12. An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

Chris Matakas

#13. Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

Sarah Dessen

#14. I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Julianna Baggott