Browsing Topic Best Dysfunctional Family Quotes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.

It is a family; it’s a slightly dysfunctional family, but it’s also very close and warm and loving family.

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that’s pretty normal.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

Well, while I didn’t have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn’t exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

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.’

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

A family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence. I don’t know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It’s beyond money at this point. They’re not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it’s a dysfunctional family.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I’m tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That’s been done to death, and that’s probably what everybody expected from me. But that’s not what I wanted to do.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I’ve never seen any other kind.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

It doesn’t matter whether you have the happiest upbringing… the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it’s still a family and it’s a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

It’s as simple as you can explain all of ‘Dallas.’ We’re a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.