Quotes About Family Preservation

#1. The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

Richard Wexler

#2. Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence - or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers - and

Charles Dickens

#3. I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

Jay Carney

#4. Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?

David Sedaris

#5. Children will invest as much energy as is needed to ensure the preservation of family harmony, even if it means sacrificing themselves to do so by developing psychological disorders. - Joel Covitz Emotional Child Abuse

John Bradshaw

#6. Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind.

Bruno Bettelheim

#8. There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.

Alyson Richman

#9. Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#10. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Hugh Jackman

#11. Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Linda Ronstadt

#12. It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive?
Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey...

Nancy Mitford

#13. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

Dan Inosanto

#14. To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure, except perhaps when connected with the photography of deceased persons in an imperfect state of preservation.

Dorothy L. Sayers