Quotes About Rotten Family

#1. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.

Rosamund Hodge

#3. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

Joan Didion

#4. If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Rumi

#5. Katharine: I can't keep up with you!
Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.
- Death on the Family Tree

Patricia Sprinkle

#6. I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#7. I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

Tia Mowry

#8. Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

Sara Shepard

#9. the multiple angry assaults on the "traditional family" are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the "covenantal family" of the Bible into the hated "hierarchical family" of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others. Still

Os Guinness

#10. The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#12. Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

Walter Benjamin

#13. I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

Jacki Weaver

#14. They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead - ghosts risen from their graves - not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As

Joe Hill

#15. Without my family I would be nothing.

Jennifer Lawrence

#16. A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

A.A. Milne

#17. The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

Thomas R. Donahue