My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken.
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.
The thing about the 'Broken Skull Challenge' is that there's really nothing else like it on television.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.
I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
I have broken a lot of stories.
I had always broken the rules.
It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.
We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.
