Quotes About Functional Families

#1. 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.

Stephen Karam

#2. In functional families the roles are chosen and are flexible. The members have the choice of giving up the roles. In dysfunctional families the roles are rigid.

John Bradshaw

#3. I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

David Sheff

#4. We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

William James

#5. Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Martha Stewart

#6. I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#7. Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

Mike Huckabee

#8. My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet ... none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

Don Omar

#9. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences.

Suzanne Collins

#10. What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

Stephen King