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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. — Evan Esar

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. — Mary Karr

Characteristics cling to families. — Francis Galton

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R. D. Laing

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. - Sigmund Freud

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud

Our family is a circle of strength and love...Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger. — Harriet Morgan

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

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

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. — Sara Sheridan

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. — Henry B. Eyring

Family, nature and health all go together. — Olivia Newton-John

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. — Mario Puzo

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. - Anthony Brandt

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. — Anthony Brandt

In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member. — African Proverbs

My immediate family is real close-knit. — Kenan Thompson

Family Relations Quotes

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. — Bernard Meltzer

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation. — Queen Elizabeth II

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. — Trenton Lee Stewart

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. — Sidney Altman

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature. — Charles Lamb

Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc. — Kumari Jayawardena

Family dynamics quote If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to. — Woody Harrelson

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.' — Ian Somerhalder

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships. — Derrick Bell

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. — Oliver Hudson

Family Drama Quotes

A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live. — Yi Sun-sin

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. — Ben Kingsley

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other. — Robin Sharma

Family dynamics quote Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.
Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.

I hope that's how it is on every set - or that Teen Wolf goes on forever! Our cast is so honest with each other. There's no drama. There's no judgment. We just click. It's like a family. — Crystal Reed

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive. — Emily VanCamp

We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too. — Kim Da-hyun

Family dynamics quote Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.
Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.

Other than hitting the ball...there's nothing else I have ever done or know how to do. How to live on the outside, how to earn a living, how to take of my family, I'm a stupid idiot who doesn't know how to do any of that. Therefore...Please let me play baseball. — Kim Young-kwang

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors. — Geoffrey Rush

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

I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do. — Courteney Cox

Family Conflict Quotes

No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War. — Colin Powell

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Family dynamics quote Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Don't meddle with a family feud. — African Proverbs

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. — Jessica Savitch

Whether it’s in the office or around the family dinner table, don’t avoid honest, clear conflict. It will get you the best car price, the higher salary, and the largest donation. It will also save your marriage, your friendship, and your family. — Chris Voss

Family dynamics quote The best thing in life are free.
The best thing in life are free.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. — Lao Tzu

Next time you pray any kind of prayer, whether it be for the resolution of healing, or for a house, or for a car, or for a husband, or for a family conflict, or for a solution to a problem, tell Him he can say yes or no. Because in the end, you're a winner. Every time. — Bo Sanchez

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. — Edwin Land

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Dysfunctional Family Quotes

I really don't like that family analogy too much. Families have a lot of dysfunction and families often don't have a goal. The point of a team is that there's a goal we're working together to do this thing and with families, that's not really their function. — Kyle Roof

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' — Jeff Foxworthy

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them. — Emo Philips

Family dynamics quote Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. — Star Parker

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Family dynamics quote Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. — Joseph Kesselring

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. — Emmy Rossum

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. — Lisa Kleypas

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. — Gene Hackman

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More Family Dynamics Quotes

When a father praises his son, he flatters himself. — American Proverbs

Some families are like potatoes — all that’s good of them is underground. — American Proverbs

Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.' — Akira Toriyama

Family dynamics quote The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is i
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries. — Chris Oyakhilome

Food has the power to change everything, from our health to family dynamics, the environment, and so much more. And it all starts with one bite. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic. — Tori Spelling

Family dynamics quote Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. — Noah Baumbach

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times. — R. D. Laing

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution. — Christina Hoff Sommers

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends. — Terri E Apter

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. — Nick Carter

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting. — Richard Burr

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out. — Andrea Corr

I think families find a dynamic that works for them. — Treat Williams

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. — Martin Scorsese

The whole time I was writing, I had to fight my normal inclination to be funny, to sort of patch humor in, in order to convey all of the disruptions of the disease to the family dynamic, the loss of individuality, the impact on professional life, and the sanity of the main character. Of course, that's not to say it never sneaks in; there's some black comedy in there, like when he shows up to court wearing a bicycle helmet and won't take it off. — Joshua Ferris

My family dynamic is quite eccentric. I have two fathers. I think it depends on the relationship between the child and the parents, but definitely, when it comes to being a stepparent or a coparent, it's a different relationship. There's just as much love, but the bonds can be different. It depends when you come into their life and how well you know them - this dynamic takes a lot of patience and love. — Liv Tyler

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild. — Aasif Mandvi

I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize. — Christopher Castellani

It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic. — Judith Light

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does. — Tim Daly

Working with family is probably one of the hardest things in business, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. You have to be very, very careful that you don't overstep the boundaries that you wouldn't with anyone else. Sometimes, we think that the unconditional love they have for us makes overstepping boundaries alright. It's really not. You have to work harder to not damage the family dynamic. That lasts forever. — Paula Deen

The transitional period was tough, I won't kid you. You go from a certain family dynamic to adjusting to a completely new one. It took a few months for us all to fi nd our feet. — Donna Air

I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with. — Sarah Kay

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it. — Eckhart Tolle

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community. — Paul David Tripp

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift. — Sharon Lawrence

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. — Amy Winehouse

In Conclusion

Why should we read these quotes? Because they offer us an opportunity to reflect on our own family dynamics, to learn from others' experiences, and to gain a deeper understanding of our own relationships. They can inspire us to nurture stronger bonds, to handle conflicts with greater empathy, and to appreciate the unique dynamics that make our families special. In the grand tapestry of life, isn't it worth taking a moment to ponder these quotes and draw inspiration from them? Remember, family is not just about sharing a common lineage, it's about nurturing the relationships that define us. Embrace these quotes, let them guide your journey, and watch as they transform your family dynamics into a source of strength, love, and inspiration.

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