Quotes About Family Of Origin

#1. As a child of God, you aren't just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family - your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.

Mark Batterson

#2. For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Giancarlo Esposito

#3. LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

Mallory Ortberg

#4. I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

Lily King

#5. I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Jill Soloway

#6. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Maureen Brady

#7. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

Christina Baker Kline

#8. Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family
the monkey.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Christopher Dines

#10. The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

Joseph H. Greenberg

#11. We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.

Bell Hooks

#12. My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

#13. Whichever or however, the origin went down, this was the site where Candice made things ultimately happen to the family and made Gray all that he was now and always will be, which seemed like a little longer than forever.

Douglas B. Rasmussen

#14. The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Guy Murchie

#15. I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

Jacques Pepin

#16. I have never felt any connection with my family. There is-I must say simply-something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

Jean Cocteau

#17. Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.

Irvin D. Yalom

#18. Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law ... It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Joseph Story

#19. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Christopher Dines

#20. Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

Charles A. Didier

#21. Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Stephen Malkmus

#22. The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Julie Burchill

#23. We're all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us.

Pierce Brown

#24. Ou may not be able to choose your family or origin but you can choose your family of creation.

Rachel Lloyd

#25. The family in the West is finished ... its origin was economic, not biological ... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Gore Vidal

#26. There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Hans Christian Andersen

#27. Although nothing is known about the origin of the painting or where it was for much of the time before it came into the Chandos family in 1747, it has been said for a long time to be of William Shakespeare.

Bill Bryson

#28. Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

China Mieville

#29. We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

#30. Love people, not money.

Matshona Dhliwayo