Quotes About Loving Your Dysfunctional Family

#1. Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response.

Benjamin James Sadock

#2. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

#3. I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

Lisa Loeb

#4. If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

Gene Krupa

#5. O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

Joaquin Miller

#6. If you so much as snicker, I will kill you all.

Robin LaFevers

#7. I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

Robert Atkins

#8. Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried.
Joel: Where?
Clem: Hide me in your humiliation.

Charlie Kaufman

#9. The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Jim Highsmith

#10. I even love the smell of books.

Adriana Trigiani

#11. There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall

#12. What was your name again?"
"Still Eve."
"No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

Rachel Caine

#13. Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Herodotus

#15. The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams

#16. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Pat Conroy

#17. Or, what does a poor man have, a rich man need, and you would die if you ate it? Stuff

R.J. Palacio

#18. It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

Anna Wintour

#19. Cosplay. Why you just said the magic word!

Danika Stone