A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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.'
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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.
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.
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.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
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.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.
A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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.
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
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.
Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
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