If You Mess With My Family Quotes

#1. The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

#2. Family could lift you up,or mess you up pretty badly.

Kaje Harper

#3. I put on a show of confidence as often as I could, but inside, I was a befuddled mess. I secretly wished my mother would live forever. - Merrick Delmar

Heidi Peltier

#4. Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.

Kathryn Littlewood

#6. My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

#7. If there was one silver lining to this whole mess, it was the reminder of my family's greatness. I had a lovely visit with my mother that

Piper Kerman

#8. We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

Clinton Kelly

#9. People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

Hannah Simone

#10. What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

Jean Thompson

#11. Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage ... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy. - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

Andy Kerckhoff

#12. I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)

Marci Lyn Curtis

#13. Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Gayle Forman

#14. It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.

Kristine Grayson

#15. Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Anne Lamott