Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. – Cary Grant
People talk about dysfunctional families; I’ve never seen any other kind. – Sue Grafton
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. – Robert Barron
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. – Mary Karr
Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior. – David W. Earle
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that’s pretty normal. – Carnie Wilson
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache. – Iyanla Vanzant
When you know to round up your siblings or for you to leave the house or to get in someone’s room, before your parents start fighting, there are definitely some issues you need to talk about.
It’s frightening seeing in ourselves the same ingredients as dysfunctional members of our families. Fortunately, as it is with baking, the proportions, mix, and temperature of the exact same ingredients can yield anything from burnt cookies to elegant soufflés. – Alan Robert Neal
I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they are supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way man will treat them.
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.’
Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about.
They’ve really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
Honestly, my family issues are the one thing that get to me, but they have made me so much stronger than I Could’ve hoped for.
I like when people tell me about their family issues, I feel like I know them better.
Many teenagers would like to have emotional outlet whenever they experience family problems.
Here’s to the kids who are tired of going through the same family problems over & over again…
I feel like anyone who’s ever said the words ‘your parents must be proud’ obviously have some deep rooted family issues.
A word of brotherly advice: don’t broadcast your personal family issues on social media. It will only show how weak and insecure you are.
I hate when people bash their parents on social networking sites, family issues should stay private. Have some respect please.
Always be kind to your parents. Everyone has arguments, but always remember to help them through their problems. Keep family close.
Some things I refuse to talk about on social networking sites. Some things are off limits, like issues with family.
There is no such thing as the perfect family. Every family is unique with its own combination of strengths and weaknesses.
Burdens and opposition will always be there. What is really needed is a clear solid path towards problem resolution and then being mutually encouraged as a family.
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories… money, health or relationships.
Running away from your family’s problems will not provide solutions. What you really want are solid solutions and a reasonable plan to address family conflict and pain.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. – Mignon McLaughlin
Problems are like washing machines. They twist us, spin us and knock us around but in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better than before.
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.
A busy mother makes slothful daughters. – Portuguese Proverb
You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times.
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with. – Roger Ebert
How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend! – Pope Francis
Pick a dysfunction and it’s a family problem.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. – Dalai Lama
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. – William R. Alger
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
Everybody’s family has problems.
Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road
Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle
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