Top 1200 Broken Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

To get to play a man that has broken walls, that's broken barriers, that's an honor.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Our students are not broken. Our teachers are not broken. It's our system that has been broken.

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'

Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

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

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

'Broken' is a story of two broken people coming together. I think every one of us can associate with it, as we all have faced a heartbreak sometime in our life.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.

The people you are supposed to be able to trust the most is your family, and when that trust is broken, it's painful.

I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Records are made to be broken. It's great when they are broken by attacking players.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

I came from a broken home and have been so concerned about my own family that divorce has not even been in my vocabulary. It's against everything I ever believed in.

Everyone is broken; every mortal man or woman is broken in some way, shape, or form.

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds