#domestic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #domestic




I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.


Stephen Harper


#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.


Robert Mugabe


#colonial #domestically #enough #helpless #history

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.


Ai-jen Poo


#employees #employers #their #whim

If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in too much rage and too many words… If you spent years hanging on to the concepts of faith, hope, and love, even after you knew in your heart that those intangibles, upon which life is formed and sustained, would fail in the end… And especially, if you stood between your children - or anyone - and him, and took the physical, emotional, and spiritual pummeling in their stead, then you are a hero.


Jenna Brooks


#domestic-violence #inspirational #women-s-issues #anger

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.


Michael Cunningham


#domestic-life #loved-ones #numb-depression #preparation-to-face-the-day #putting-on-an-act

Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.


Toba Beta


#domestication #education #teaching #education

My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a very real power, Harriet." "Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#devotion #dignity #disagreements #domestic-life #equality

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.


Raymond Carver


#domestic-abuse #domestic-violence #family #fathers #love

Even though you weren't born to us, you grew in our hearts. We will be forever connected because love is what makes a family.


Deanna Kahler


#domestic-adoption #family

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.


Christiane Amanpour


#abc news #anchor #asked #being #david