Family Flaws Quotes

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and imperfections and what it was like growing up. It was from one kid's perspective and not a well rounded one. You get older, and it's like, 'How dare I portray my father as being a totally vacant, careless schmuck?'

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

We’re not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family. So much for my father being a god of prophecy, huh? (Stryker)

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

All families are liable to have degenerate members.

There's no perfect household anywhere.

While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt.

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!