Jim Jefferies Quotes

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

I like stories that affect families.

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

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

There were just a lot of things that happened between my mother and I, and I thought it would be easier if I lived with my grandmother.

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.

As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something.

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.