Top 31 Family Function Quotes
#1. New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!
Dana Gould
#2. What did people do with enormous families? All those cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews. How did they keep them straight? How did they breathe at any sort of family function?
J.D. Robb
#3. Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.
Stephen Covey
#4. If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Paul D. Boyer
#5. Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
John McKnight
#6. If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Saul Bellow
#7. That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#8. Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
Paddy Chayefsky
#9. Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.
Robert Greene
#10. Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
Pavlos, Crown Prince Of Greece
#11. There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
David Foster
#12. The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
Edward Albee
#13. The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.
Lee Adams
#15. The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.
John Elkann
#16. I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult
#17. If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!
Jules Henry
#18. Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
Anthony Carmona
#19. I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
Kacey Musgraves
#20. That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independently?
Barbara Delinsky
#21. There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Isaac Goldberg
#22. To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
Jules Renard
#23. The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
Stephen King
#24. Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
Charles A. Reich
#25. The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.
Rocco Buttiglione
#26. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .
R.D. Laing
#27. When I'm dreaming of Alison Koechner, what I'm dreaming of is not dying. Okay? See? I get it.
Ben H. Winters
#28. The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.
Mike Breen
#29. Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
George S. Patton
#30. I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.
Justin Torres
#31. The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
Joseph Sobran
