Shriver Report Quotes & Sayings

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history. — Maria Shriver

In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while their mother did unpaid child care, elder care, and housework.

The Great Depression and World War II disrupted this family form, but it roared back in the 1950s, when the percentage of wives and mothers who were supported entirely by their husbands' wages reached a high that has never been equaled, before or since. — Stephanie Coontz

No one's going to be at our hundred-year reunion. Hell, no one's coming back for the five-year reunion." That was probably true. — Amy Zhang

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy. — Nigella Lawson

He'll be here, Damen had said, and he believed that, even as the first wave hit and the men around him began to die.
There was a dark logic to it. Have your slave convince the Akielons to fight. Let your enemies do your fighting for you, the casualties taken by the people you despise, the Regent defeated or weakened, and the armies of Nikandros wiped out.
It wasn't until the second wave hit them from the north-west that he realised they were totally alone. — C.S. Pacat

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Love is the soul of a divine being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It's to set your goal too low and reach it — Georges St-Pierre

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree. — Miguel De Unamuno

Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away. — A.D. Posey

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. — Peter Morgan

He had no love for sleeping inside and wanted his horse near him. There was something about lying under the stars that was conducive to thought, and he had some thinking to do. — Louis L'Amour

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that. — Margaret Atwood

You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

People live through heartbreak, and you are strong enough to live through it many times. But Julian is not someone who can just touch your heart. He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having you heart break and you soul shatter. — Cassandra Clare

While I may want to take my kids out of this world, God continually shows His power in our kids to help them stand firm in it! — Michelle Anthony