Amelia Warren Tyagi famous quotes

The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Home #Parent #Events

More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Thinking #Parent #Majority

We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Kids #People #Rising

With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side - either somebody has to take time off work or somebody has to pay someone to provide that care. In either it represents a big financial blow, and families just don't have the flexibility to deal with it.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Blow #Parent #Care

If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they can buy a new house near the school of their choice. And it's driving up property prices in certain key areas. When you stop and think about it, that's kind of ridiculous.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#School #Kids #Thinking

Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Medical Problems #People #Half

The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical problem, or a divorce. And the fact is that those are exactly the kind of calamities that the bankruptcy courts were designed to help people through.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Jobs #Divorce #Loss

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Country #America #Parent

I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.