Family Behavior Quotes

I think all families are creepy in a way.

I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

I've always been, since I was a little kid, and my son is quite observant, too.

There's always a performance going on in our house.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Every family is a crazy family.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

My family is so weird.

When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.

I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Without sounding patronizing, it does seem that our family is different from other people. We risk more.

People in my family don't watch films that much.

The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

I mean, families are weird.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.