Max Hastings Quotes

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

We all have our family issues from time to time.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

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

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

Everybody's family has problems.

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

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

I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

I don't believe in happy families.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.