Top 1200 Dysfunctional Family Quotes & Sayings

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

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

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

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

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

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality.

In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

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.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

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.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

The whole world is one big dysfunctional family. But no matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives. We can still try to get along together.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

Everybody's family is dysfunctional.

You know, coming from a broken dysfunctional family, you know, it's something that I always aspired to be - a good husband and a good father.

A dysfunctional team means a dysfunctional - and likely doomed - company.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

At the end of the day, wrestling is one big, happy, dysfunctional family.

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.

My childhood had much clarity. I didn't see abuse. I didn't see my parents bickering. I didn't live in a dysfunctional family.

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't know anything else.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.

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

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.

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

There's an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Every family is dysfunctional.

Mary Trump's 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man' tells a remarkable story, the broad strokes of which many already knew. Mary Trump offers a tale of what she calls 'malignant' family dysfunction, and how it produced a malignantly dysfunctional president.

America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.

I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?