Quotes of: American-family Keyword

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

Alicia Keys

The reality of life is that, your friends can deny you, your family can deny you but God will never deny you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

Adam Rickitt

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.

Aniruddha Sastikar

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

Life

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Valerie Simpson

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

Timothy Bottoms

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

Sander Levin

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

Tulsi Gabbard

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths we create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so, however, we must recognize that ...

Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.

The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.

The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can't Read, Write or Add

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for gen...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities